Word: hates
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...deplorable. What is more, it is embarrassing in the extreme to all men present to see an officer, elected to conduct their meeting, blunderingly ask advice of his secretary, of his nearest friend, of anybody who will give it. True, our meetings do not occur very frequently and students hate to bother about mere parliamentary tactics, as long as the business in hand is quickly accomplished. But for this very reason, to avoid parliamentary haggling and to expedite matters, the chairman should know the ABC of Cushing's or Roberts' manual. It cannot be urged that the offices are unexpectedly...
...letters. It is too often the case that nothing but a bank account distinguishes the capitalist from the socialist. Justus Schwab says, "Shoot the rich man;" and the rich man says, "The public be blanked!" Ignorance is the only common bond between them, and that fosters their mutual hate. The poor men and self-styled reformers who met at Irving Hall a short time ago had for their motto "Ni dieu ni maitre," and their speeches showed that it was appropriate. They serve neither God nor man and know no master. Only education can reach them. They seem...
...spar with some bobbies in the Haymarket, and scampered home, leaving his hat in their possession, when they had sprung their rattle and got reinforcements. These were discreditable traits in English manners. They were always incomprehensible to foreigners, though foreigners generally had, and still have, much more cause to hate their police than we ours. The undergraduates who were fined ten pounds may congratulate themselves that they were not Parisian students in the Latin Quarter, or German students at Heid-lberg. In any country but England, their piece of sportiveness would have been atoned for in that kind of seclusion...
...hour, Prof. Newton looked upon Mr. Phelps as a mathematical prodigy. He was the first man who had ever caught the Professor tripping. "And so," Mr. Phelps used often to add, with his own peculiar smile in telling the story, "I achieved a reputation for knowing a thing I hate. It's the way many reputations are made in this superficial world...
...hate and joy, and wrath and pain his gloomy soul embitters...