Word: offending
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...college life is a caricature of the social life of the world. The candidate for social position dares not offend the society which confers that position; so he becomes a lackey dressed in the livery of the society, the exact counterpart of every other society man in both dress and opinions. There is Snobling, for instance, - a cigarette-rolling Sophomore. Ask him what he thinks about admitting women to Harvard. I can vouch that his answer will...
...anything but salutary in its effects. At the same time these secret organizations have a certain amount of power; and as long as they do not interfere with you, you had better not interfere with them, - technical interference being the public mention of their existence. If they openly offend you, of course you must not calmly submit; but my experience of them is that they do not often attack unless they are attacked. And then they turn upon you all their batteries of petty malice. My advice on this matter is pretty much what it is on every other, - keep...
...this historic city would prompt me to write of bygone internecine struggles, rather than of the peaceful athletic contests of modern times, were my interest in those contests one jot less keen. Having lived for many years at a distance from the scenes of action, should any misstatement offend my readers, I apologize beforehand, attributing it to my precarious sources of information. However, I have to deal with principles rather than facts...
...seventeenth century, it is prescribed that if any scholar, being in health, shall be absent from prayers or lectures, except in case of urgent necessity or by leave of his Tutor, he shall be liable to admonition (or such punishment as the President shall think meet), if he offend above once a week. The daily services in the Hall were conducted by the President. In the morning, the undergraduates were required to read in the Old Testament from the Hebrew into Greek, excepting the Freshmen, who were allowed to use their English Bibles; and in the evening to read...
...very bad. It is easy to see that some enthusiastic member of a society, with much voice and deficient musical education, may cause the tune to err slightly in the course of a long song with chorus. Even opera-choruses, with all the aids of conductor and orchestra, sometimes offend in this. But as to our time, we are very seldom much amiss. Men sing with a will, and are pretty sure to come out correctly. And it must also be remembered that we do not sing so much in the interests of classic art as for amusement and recreation...