Word: mildest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...twelve succumbed on Saturday to the New Yorks at Staten Island. The team and each individual player were outplayed, and confessed it. The championship of the College League will rest as it has ever rested, between Harvard and Princeton, and the struggle this year will not be the mildest ever fought...
...which, next to the other famous one concerning the fight between Tom and Slogger Williams, has been more read by English boys than any other of any other book in the language-as he used to read it at school. He recalls the private school matches-games of the mildest description, pursued under the immediate eye of a master. He remembers his transfer to the world of public school foot-ball the punt about between hours, the compulsory game, the matches for "cock house," the foreign matches, the Old Boys' match, and finally the ecstatic moment when he found himself...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: The extraordinary document signed by Harvard graduates, which appeared in this morning's papers, cannot fail to excite considerable comment. To use the mildest terms possible under the circumstances, it cannot but seem utterly out of place and uncalled for to the majority of the students of the college. That such a document could have been written and signed on the 7th of July is easily understood, as at that time nothing had been said on Harvard's part to completely explain the difficulty. But after Harvard's part has been officially explained, and that...
...literary monthlies seem to be universally reverenced by the "college press," and it is but seldom that an iconoclastic exchange editor dares to make the mildest criticism on them. When he does, they don't receive it with any more humility than any of the less pretentious papers would. For instance, the University Magazine said that poetry did not flourish at Princeton. It certainly does n't. The Princeton papers scarcely ever have any verses at all, and when they do they are very bad. The Nassau Lit. feels it necessary to make some reply, and does it by saying...