Word: ills
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...against themselves. In other words, there is a certain amount of speaking talent here; one society containing it all must be stronger than either of two societies each of which could contain only a fraction of that talent. Furthermore between two societies there would be likely to spring up ill-feeling and disputes which would make the university weary of all speakers. I firmly believe that it would be a case where a house divided against itself could not stand...
...fall from horseback while he was hunting, and the other the overturning of his carriage by an electric car, in addition to a severe attack of malaria gave his friends great uneasiness. He left college two or three weeks before the holidays but never realized he was dangerously ill. His sudden and unexpected death will be a terrible shock to his many friends...
Herbert Tafts Allen of the Class of '86 was taken ill with peritonites in New York on Saturday and died yesterday morning. His home was in Somerville...
...forensic subjects while others have given poor; some have enforced the rules rigidly while others have not; but with them all there has appeared a disposition, often frankly admitted, to treat English C indifferently. It has been suggested at times to reduce the number of required +++ to four, - an ill-advised suggestion, for it would only weaken the course more and be a step toward discontinuing it. While the discussion of English in colleges and schools is so general as it is at present, it is for us to improve every course we have in college, and here...
They did indeed reduce both courtesy and love to a fantastic code and concerned themselves with questions whose solutions were of no value, but back of all this ill-balanced effort there lay a spirit of gentle relations between all men and women that has made a profound impression on succeeding ages...