Word: old
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...champion of reason and religious individualism but their greatest defamer. It was in this spirit that he urged the persecution of the peasants, and disputed with Zivingli at Marburg concerning the Eucharist. There was something naively terrible in the vehemence with which he devoted himself to contending with his old followers...
...stand. The position of some of the graduates, that the time was not opportune for a withdrawal was attacked on the grounds that delay would do no good; a withdrawal would still seem to be a revenge for a defeat and the subject was really so old a one that no one could call a withdrawal at the present time a hasty poorly-considered step...
...first meeting of the Conference Francaise will be held this evening in the room of the Southern club, which the society will use during the year. It was thought best to give up the old rooms on Jarvis street, because they were found to be so far from the yard, that on stormy nights the attendance at the meetings suffered. There are now about seventy-five men in the society, but the number will probably be increased to eigh-five or ninety before Christmas...
Stagg, Hartwell, Gill, Rhodes, Wurtemburg and Ferris, of the Yale team, Wallace, the old Yale end rush, and Tracy Harris, the Princeton coach, were slectators of Saturday's game...
...natural depression in the woolen trade followed. Business men could not suddenly comprehend the cause of the situation. They sought help from the government, and a tariff more stringent than any of its predecessors-the tariff of 1868, was enacted. That tariff is now twenty-two years old, and as a wool dealer, Mr. Garrison did not hesitate to affirm that it is a disappointment...