Word: peevishly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...show superior strength and science to do so. This, as a sign of the times, is most encouraging. Disgruntled criticism has done much evil here in the past. It has been caused by defeats to a great extent, but it has reacted upon the players and has made them peevish at times, and so we have lost. The success which has come to us so far this season can continue until Yale is defeated on the water next June if the same perseverance and devotion which has characterized the foot-ball work is extended to the other branches of athlectics...
...student who had been prevented from attending recitations on account of sickness, on his return asked the instructor to tell him the amount of work done by the class in his absence. The instructor declined in a way that, impolite in itself, was rendered doubly so by his peevish manner. An instructor must understand that it lies entirely with himself to gain the respect and to excite the interest of his scholars; the one is an unfailing companion of the other. If he fail to do either, the teacher must blame himself, and should not so far forget himself...
...splinters are liable to be run up under the nails, causing serious wounds. It may be further remarked that this inoffensive "professor" is paid by Mr. Hemenway, and it would seem more fitting to thank the donor of the Gymnasium for his continued generosity, than to whine like a peevish child who is not allowed to break its new plaything. The unfortunate "muckers" who come in for so much blame were introduced at the urgent request of students, and have certainly proved a great convenience. Altogether, now that the red tape of the card regulation has been removed...