Word: loth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their first benefit concert of the season in Sanders Theatre last evening, before a small but appreciative audience. The attendance was by no means a credit to the college, which seems ready to accept free concerts and other favors from the two societies in the spring, but to be loth to repay them at the only times when a chance is offered so to do. Very few freshmen were seen in the audience, although the concert had been placed at an earlier date this year, so as not to interfere with the freshman Christmas examinations. '86 is belying her good...
There has, however, been nothing in the conduct of the managers of our crew which should call forth such a deluge of venom and abuse from the News. Charitably supposing that the writer of the article is not guilty of gross misrepresentation nor deliberate falsehood - for we are loth to believe that even of the News - we are forced to conclude that the News was grossly ignorant of the facts and possibilities of the case, and, in publishing such a scurrilous article under such circumstances, was misled by its ignorance...
...method of play, and in blindly ignoring the storm of indignation and adverse criticism that has come from both college and public press on the subject, is simply sublime. The HERALD in its opinions has not spoken as representing more than its own editorial board, and would be loth to bring evidence that its views are representative in any larger sense were it not directly challenged to do so by the News. The News perhaps is at liberty to regard the deliberate expressions of the Crimson, Advocate, Lampoon and HERALD as "bencath notice," - so high is it raised above...
...live I am very loth...