Word: rabid
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...record shows the impossibility of freeing a Southern man from the bigoted views which he has been taught from childhood. Immediately after the war, characters such as are described in the book undoubtedly existed in large numbers. but the tendency of latter years has been to soften these rabid sectional views. The work, although slightly overdrawn, is full of life and incident, and ranks with the average reconstruction novel...
...Upsilon fraternity at the convention with the chapter at Brown University, the more recent unconditional repeal of the anti-fraternity laws by the authorities of Vanderbilt University, and the radical change in policy announced in the last number of the Occident, of the University of California, until now a rabid anti-fraternity organ, are significant indications of the general breaking up of the hostile spirit that prevailed against college secret societies in many quarters some ten years ago. The reasons for this gratifying change of opinion are, in part, the almost total disappearance of those organizations that in the early...
Since the Yale News, yielding to the dictates of its rabid fancy, has of late been seeking to belittle Harvard's record in athletics in general, it may be in order to bring forward a few facts, obtained by a cursory glance over past college affairs. In making comparisons we have taken the past seven years as our basis, thus giving to Yale all the advantage, since prior to this period Harvard was overwhelmingly victorious over Yale in every branch of athletics...
...discussion on another subject by making against the managers of our crew the serious charge that they have acted discourteously or unfairly in not replying promptly to Yale's challenge. Not only are the charges ungentlemanly and wholly without foundation, but they are made in the News' most rabid and flippant style...
...marked paper has been sent to us in which there is the report of a sermon of a celebrated divine. The reverend gentleman undertakes to show that the state of morals of Harvard suffers by comparison with that of colleges where co-education exists. The article is so rabid in its denunciation of Harvard as a school for virtuous young men, and so laudatory of the pure and virgin-like atmosphere of institutions where young women exert their elevating and refining influence on the beatic youths, whom by daily converse they keep from the sins that would condemn them...