Word: lawlessness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...next place, I know that there is not a single Harvard correspondent who is not loyal to his university-and more loyal than those carping critics who tear out imaginary gray hairs over the result, instead of seeking to apply a remedy at the ultimate cause the foolish and lawless spirit which some undergraduates are always bound to show on the occasion of an athletic victory. One might as well blame a man or a newspaper for reporting the account of the Bram murder trial; since this was such a terrible murder and such a disgrace to civilization...
...commenting on the editorial in the Graduates' Magazine which complains of sensational and "padded" Harvard news written by students for the Boston papers, he says: that such reports are caused by the foolish and lawless spirit displayed by undergraduates in their celebrations, and that a good tempering influence is exerted by their publication. He forgets that objection is not made to the existence of the reports themselves, but to their sensational, distorted, and often absolutely false character. The assertion than none of these reports is ever the work of a Harvard man is one which we should like to believe...
...unharbored coast and the malarial swamps of North Carolina had turned the course of the earliest settlers northward toward Virginia. Soon the discontented and lawless from the latter colony emigrated southward and formed a separate settlement, which on account of its make-up was in a condition bordering on anarchy. The industries-purely agricultural-were, however, more varied than in Virginia. The main staples were tobacco in the north and rice in the south. The absence of manufactures and commerce made town life uncommon, most of the people being small farmers and living on small and widely scattered plantations...
...innkeeper, the beloved of Lorenzo, the captain of a troup of Carabiniers, who, however, has every prospect of being rejected by her father, on the score of his poverty, till he acquires both wealth and glory by the capture of Fra Diavolo, the bandit Marquis and his lawless retainers. There are two subordinate Canditti - though far from subordinate in the interest they impart to the drama - Beppo and Giacomo, Beppo a half bully, half coward, who would stab an innocent girl, yet crawl on his knees at the mention of the Holy Virgin...
...learn that the changes in religion are not lawless, but are subject to a steady growth, always in the light of what has gone before. Another thing we learn is that every man has an ear to hear the voice of God for himself, and hearing, has a right to go out and proclaim it to his neighbors...