Word: lukewarm
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...have been pained to learn, from graduates in different parts of the country, that the men whom the Republic is about to expose to bullets and yellow fever suspect this University community of lukewarm loyalty to the country which it has served so often and so simply. If we can not all of us join these men, let us at least not insult them by saying that their lives are less valuable than ours. If we can not convince them that we are patriotic, let us at least not convince them that we are cads...
...part of Harvard's faculty, amateur rowing has received no encouragement of late, and the crimson has paled before colleges of more enterprise. But let it be understood that fair Harvard has been selected to uphold the honor of the nation in a friendly contest, and this lukewarm feeling will give place to enthusiasm, and there will be such a revival in aquatic sports as America has never seen...
...Wigglesworth, the Hollis professor, wrote a strong letter to the great evangelist, protesting against his aspersions on the college piety. It is not necessary to take sides in the old dear dispute. Certainly it is not necessary for us to praise in full what we doubt was a very lukewarm condition of religious zeal; but we may well rejoice in the occurrence as a breaking open of what had been a very hard and tight idea of religious experience. It was a protest in behalf of the variety and spontaneity of spiritual life. It was a claiming of its rights...
...debate as a whole was a trifle lukewarm, the only stirring speeches coming from the Irish side of the house, and it is only fair to state that they spoke in a way that did their cause credit. The negative confined their remarks to legal quibbles on the separation of the grand British Empire, and offered some able legal arguments in favor of their theories; but they rather stultified themselves by urging that the Irish were now unfit, would perhaps always be unfit to govern themselves; that they did not wish to govern themselves; that they wanted independence...
...purpose of cleanliness, lukewarm water and soap should be used on the parts most exposed, as the face, neck and hands, morning and evening. Water should not be allowed to dry into the hair, as a disagreeable odor is sometimes produced in this way, and the action of the glands interfered with. A fine-toothed comb should be used with great caution, and no comb violently...