Word: harshness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Pudding building, we notice that after all something is lacking in the scene. We try to think what it can be, and finally we discover it. Right before us stretching over a hundred yards of ground, the walls of the Jefferson Laboratory raise their giant and rigid outlines; their harsh effect lessened by no attempt at any concealment of their hideous nudity. As we rise with a sigh because the field cannot be entirely beautiful after all, we breathe a wish that our landscape gardner would only train a little ivy up the north end of that building, or plant...
...countenanced by the Harvard authorities. All the tender, gentle sides of our natures are neglected and grow up like reeds in a sandy soil, getting only a mere existence. Deprived for a time of association with the fairer and gentler sex, we grow manly and (in a sense) harsh, and not mild, gentle, forbearing. So, then, whenever we find the monotony of our desert life broken by some pleasant oasis with its shady groves and fair flowers, with its restful hospitality, we are entranced; for a time we think ourselves in a different world, where, indeed, we really...
...your own admission, that adjective was not wholly inappropriate, I think, on the whole, I might better have used the word "misleading." When I used the word, I was thinking, not of the trivial blunder as to the cost of the "blazers," but to the rather broad and harsh clause in which it is said that the provision of such "luxuries" as "blazers," etc., "indicates a looseness in the handling of the crew money, which it would be well to investigate more closely." It may be true that such language reflects on nobody, but, if so, language has certainly lost...
...attended morning chapel, and seen the way in which it is taken by the students, will not be so harsh in his judgement. Running from bed to breakfast, and then to chapel, half awake, with a half learned lesson, is it surprising that a man under such circumstances should lose the religious significance of the duty? As a revielle, a police regulation to get men out of bed, it does us good service: as a purely religious exercise, we fancy very few would affirm that, as the fact stands now, it is honorable either to the students, or to their...
...extend our hearty sympathy to our correspondent from the West. It is indeed a harsh experience to have one's visions of a life of scholarly quiet so rudely dispelled as his have been. But he must remember that this year in many respects, stands above and phenomenal among the monotonous years of college history. It is too true, though, that our students have been put to great annoyance by the "popular demonstrations" with which we have been almost nightly favored. The parades of the "Mugwump Zouaves," and kindred ephemeral armies, imposing though they undoubtedly were, became decidedly boresome...