Word: lovely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...because the people of Chicago thought the blood of the murdered policemen called for vengeance. They only meant to forestall a change in the present social state of things, and we must beware of making martyrs of them by persecution. The hope was expressed that the Anglo-Saxon love of fair play would assert itself...
...Though deeply grieved at our loss, we nevertheless feel that the all-ruling God has afflicted us in furtherance of His own wise designs for our good, and therefore we humbly submit ourselves to His will, trusting in His inflinite mercy that is ever with us, and His love that is over...
...destined for Harvard in athletic sports. The report of our defeats of last June, which are published today according to custom, open the wounds which were partly healed during the summer recess, and must awaken in the hearts of everyone who claims to possess any love for Harvard, serious thoughts as to the reason for our continued discomfiture. It is true, indeed, that athletics are not the main purpose of college life, but nevertheless, "Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well," and therefore, it shows a lamentable lack of determination and perseverance when the largest university...
...iconoclastic spirit is a powerful one; we love to see the old gods dethroned and new ones set in their places. Mr. T. S. Perry has unearthed a new god in the person of Ebenezer Jones, for whose poems he wishes us to make a place, even if we have to thrust aside "some of his more successful rivals, who are admired simply because they happen to be the fashion." Mr. Perry is an eloquent and skillful advocate, but we must not forget that "fashion" in such matters is usually right: if it makes a favorite of one poet...
...natures of these people are true to humanity. What is better still, they are true to a phase of humanity which is neither degraded nor trivial, but which, though of necessity marked with error, is nevertheless essentially noble and high. We know of no instance in fiction where a love between man and woman, which could not exist and be given expression to within the bounds of honor, has been depicted with the quiet strength and delicacy, and with the entire absence of anything vicious or demoralizing, that characterizes the history of Margaret and Harold. Without sentimentality, one pities...