Word: odium
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Short Hairs," and "The Swallow-Tails," Organs, Physicrl Force in Politics, and Role of the Universities in Politics-are not avoided in the present collection; but social, educational, financial, and ethical discussion predominates. Some other titles are: Culture and War, The Comparative Morality of Nations, The Odium Philologicum, Professor Huxley's Lectures, Tyndall and the Theologians, Judges and Witnesses, Mr. Froude as a Lecturer, John Stuart Mill, Carlyle's Political Influence, The Morals and Manners of the Kitchen, The Evolution of the Summer Resort, "The Debtor Class," Panics, etc. The volume is dedicated to Charles Eliot Norton, "to whom...
...University gave an instructive lecture under the auspices of the Classical Club. His subject was "A Latin Poet and his Greek Model." Professor White wittily introduced Mr. Morris, saying that the theological disputes of former times between Harvard and Yale had in the lapse of years developed into an "odium athleticum periculissimum," but notwithstanding this, the relations between the Yale Classical Club and the Harvard Classical Club had always been most friendly...
...Competition is excessively injurious under the lease system of prison labor. - (a) To the convict. - (1) Morals, all are herded together. - (2) All pretense of reform is given up. - (b) To outside competitors. - (1) Odium of system makes labor cheap. - (2) Nature of labor concentrates it on certain occupations, e.g., mining. - Tennessee troubles. - (c) To the peace of the State. - Ibid...
...exclusion of the college special students is equally inadmissible, since it would impose upon Harvard a handicap without compensation, Much odium, it is true, has attached, hitherio, in athletic matters to special students. But the objectionable practices have been confined to special students in the professional schools, between whom and the special students in the academic and scientific departments there is the widest difference. The special student in the professional schools is admitted without examination, is not required to attend any exercise or pass any examination subsequent to admission, and is subject to no supervision whatever, being supposed...