Word: grossest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seems like a strange contradiction that journals professedly religious and temperate should be the most prone to indulge in intemperate and preposterous charges against the morality of college life. A most absurd and unfounded slander upon Harvard students, charging upon them the grossest and most flagrant intemperance, appears in a late number of the National Temperance Advocate, a story which it would be superfluous to deny. There may be a kind of temperance which the journal we have quoted does not profess to advocate but which motives of consistency might move it to adopt. Temperance of speech...
...that there must be some natural facility in adaptation and appropriation besides originality, which is admitted to be a sine qua non. One must have the faculty of selection in its highest development. We ourselves are living illustrations of the law of "The Survival of the Fittest" in its grossest and most palpable application. This law we must apply to the higher and (if I may) more aesthetic province of dress and manners. The theory that manners are the exponents of the feelings, and that the good heart shows itself in good manners, is a delusion of the past...