Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Hamilton trouser-stretcher, $2.00; the finest pure-wool hand-knit sweaters; also the regular line of woven worsted gymnasium goods; plenty of gymnasium shoes, rubbers and overshoes...
...that it would be hard to get many groups of a dozen or more men to go bail for each other's honors in this way; that certain groups of men might form such clubs for the express purpose of cheating; that a club honestly formed might not remain pure, etc. In brief, the project met no favor. Now, to me this little incident was a revelation of the low ebb to which the college tone had sunk as regards effective moral opinion. I thought I could perceive that what made this scheme unpromising was not so much the conviction...
...teens. He knows that public opinion here at heart despises such puerility. Yet that opinion is ineffective for inaugurating any change. Why? Because it is really too lazy to take the trouble. We do not believe that there is any lack of inner independence in the matter. It is pure indifference combined with a transcendent devotion to a fear of appearing ridiculous, or expressing any idea which is not the merest commonplace...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- We who board at Memorial are forced to stomach a good many unpleasant doses. But it does seem as if, when a thing is so cheap, and abundant as water, and withal so necessary, we might have the pure article. The water furnished at Memorial is naturally a little turbid. But the animals which now infest it are conspicuous, even among the floating particles of lint which thicken it. If anyone will take the trouble to look in his glass in the morning he will see them skipping about in high glee. Better water than this...
Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason...