Word: guileless
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...those "happy-go-lucky" fellows who room in the college dormitories in and about the yard, whose confidence in human nature is so guileless that they leave the doors of their rooms unlocked, we should like to say a few words of caution. In one of the college dormitories several thefts have lately occurred, resulting in the loss of several overcoats in rooms whose occupants were careless enough to leave their doors unlatched. One of the "goodies" in Weld was unfortunate enough a day or two ago to have some light-fingered wanderer walk off with the bunch of keys...
...before; it is only when vice takes on a pleasanter and more aesthetic garb that resistance is a virtue. In the first case, there is no temptation, consequently no virtue. It is only in resisting that which is agreeable that manhood is developed. Harvard sends forth, not men of guileless innocence and insipid morality, but men of sturdysinewy manliness...
...fear that some of the wisdom of the "sarpint" lay behind this Eton boy's request. Are there no trots at Eton for a man to consult when he is "stuck" in Greek? We should like to see that guileless youth's collection of autographs before we believe his little tale...
...cooked by their own fair hands. The young ladies of this high seat of learning are, no doubt, partisans of Mr. Hendricks' who seems to be a favorite with the gentler sex, and they would like to see that staunch Democrat in the Presidential chair. It was a guileless, girlish plot. The President-elect, being too busy to eat that cake will live...
...when the boasted progress in athletics is in the direction of fraud and deceit." Probably the annals of debate among intelligent men will show nothing richer or fresher than this. Brothers Nichols of Harvard and Moffat of Princeton will hereafter kindly refrain from practising their deceptive arts upon the guileless batsmen. It is wrong to give them balls that they cannot knock into "kingdom come." It is shame to tease them by sending in curved spheres. In future, pitchers will deliver them straight at the bat so that nothing may baffle the aim of the batsman, who can thus convert...