Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...weather has been so mild at Princeton for the past two or three days that the nine has been practising out of doors...
...they make investments in beer than in their contributions to the Sunday school cause, and vile rumor has insinuated that poker parties are more to the Princetonian taste than are missionary meetings. All in vain has the genial old Scotch president bewailed this condition of affairs. His mild admonitions, his lectures, long drawn out and frequently repeated, his pleas and threats, all alike have fallen on ears disinclined to hearken. Occasional suspensions have fallen short of the object aimed at, and even stronger discipline has held few terrors for youths bent on a good time. The students have looked upon...
Whose manner was yearning and mild...
...BONO PUBLICO ABDICATES.Entre nous, Mr. HERALD, isn't it getting to be a little too much to ask of a couple of mild philanthropists and reformers like ourselves that we should carry on the whole of this agitation and investigation into the Memorial Hall board business? Am I to write eternal communications, and are you to indite endless editorials and reports with no better results than we have as yet attained? Before we came to college it was different with us writers for the press, when, at our slightest hint of dissatisfaction innumerable mass meetings and investigating committees...
...rather backward in making any active demonstration of its regard, even though this regard be most sincere. In short, the student delights in raillery, but is averse to sentiment. As a natural consequence, therefore, those who provoke his displeasure expose themselves to some form of caricature more or less mild; while those who gain his regard have for the most part uninterrupted silence for their reward. Silence is the student's mark of approbation. The present case serves to illustrate this. There is not one of us who has not been impressed with the unfailing courtesy and politeness that have...