Word: frees
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...governed from its birth is to be renounced. After heaping abuse upon that "scurrilous sheet," the New York Sun, it actually declares: "We beg the pardon of our readers for anything which may seem like Billingsgate in this article." It then adds: "We shall endeavor to keep our columns free from that offence in future. The issue of May 3 is remarkable in many respects, but nothing has startled us more than the editorial which begins: "It is the boast of all Yale men, that the discipline of this institution tends toward the cultivation of manly and independent qualities...
...hear some fearful one exclaim, "Beware lest in avoiding Charybdis you run on Scylla. Beware! the philosophy of Herbert Spencer is anti-Christian." Brother, fear not. This philosophy follows the Christian precept; it is "all things to all men." Under its broad tent meet together Christian and Free-religionist, and enjoy a social chat on the philosophy of the unknowable, in place of the wonted clash of arms. Here too may be seen together the much-lamented combination of "cigarette and ulster" cheek by jowl with the ardent democrat, who sits with his feet on the table to cultivate equality...
...interest was strong, and the room was crowded almost to suffocation; but now a course of readings in the same author, by the same professor, while highly appreciated by the Cambridge society, hardly draws fifty students, though given in the evening, when one's mind is comparatively free. The phenomenon we see, but the explanation is not so evident. Perhaps the old saw about the sweeping powers of the new broom applies here...
...statement which involves Oriental notions of property in women, and at the same time a highly objectionable tendency to free love. We are next informed that "the maiden's glance invites advance," and after being suffered to advance, we are requested to "drink bliss like sparkling wine," - sentences upon which comment is needless. And, finally, the veracity of all ladies is impugned in the lines...
...third meeting of the Athletic Association took place on Saturday last, the entrance being free to all undergraduates...