Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...lower classes, indeed! And, pray, who are the lower classes? Are they those whose hardy forms, made strong and firm by the noble labor for which the body of man was made, support the great fabric of the state, which the puny Sybarite would helplessly allow to fall asunder? Are they those whose active minds, unsullied by the thoughts and traditions, which the Old World has left behind as eternal monuments of its infamy, find in themselves the germs of truth, disregard the plaints of the timorous observer of the past, and proudly direct the course of the ship...
...recitation which I recently attended the instructor in his comments upon the text frequently spoke of the lower classes. If this phrase had occurred but once or twice, or if it had been used in reference to the four classes in college, it might have been excusable; but its constant recurrence forced me reluctantly to the perception that the professor in question actually entertained those abominable notions of social distinction which I had hoped that a century of freedom had banished from the mind of every intelligent American...
...drink, and sleep, and talk? And does the fact that a man eats, or drinks, or sleeps, or talks more than his neighbor make him that neighbor's superior? The idea is preposterous, it is shameful, it is damnable. The man who publicly declares that there are lower classes is worthy of the gallows...
...meeting of the H. U. B. C. in Lower Holden on Monday evening, February 21, the following vote was passed...
JUNIOR PHILOSOPHY. - Section IV. will recite their first lesson in Logic on Monday, February 24, at 10 A. M.; Section V. at 11 A. M.; Sophomores taking Logic as an elective, on Wednesday, March 1, at 11 A. M. All in the Lecture Room on the lower floor in Boylston. Lesson, the first in Jevon's Logic...