Word: rates
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...present are, and you are reminded of nothing but this same slow sort of thing. Last year's crew and last year's burlesque actress; certificates of admission to half a dozen more or less popular societies; a French print of a grinning grisette; at best a third-rate Landseer or two, in which the dogs and the wilder beasts unconsciously lead your mind back to sporting matters, - that is all that you will probably discover, and your thoughts will not wander a dozen miles from your cigarette...
...rulers are already sufficiently aware of our opinions on this subject to be in no need of further prompting. That action may, however, be of use in showing them that public opinion would not be so violently opposed to such an improvement as is generally thought. At any rate, I do not think that we need fear what outsiders will think, if we are sure that we are doing what is right, and take proper care to let our reasons be known...
...dare to notice how seldom they are washed; in short, as I have said, while all credit is due to the managers for making our money go as far as it does, they have not enough money to supply us with anything better than a third-rate hotel table...
...Blakey's profit is too high, which seems impossible at the present rate, since the boats will need to be renewed every three or four years, the club officers should investigate the matter, and ask him to reduce his charges, instead of allowing men to think that he "exacts" or "extorts" too much. Mr. Blakey has assured us that he is willing to act fairly toward the students and reduce the assessment as soon as it is possible; we therefore hope that, if the club officers have reason to think that $15 a year is too much, they will publish...
...enlists the aesthetic faculty on the side of the true. The newspaper is the doctor rather than the sculptor, and must sternly set itself to dissect, amputate, and prune away the evils of society, and cannot stop to weep maudlin tears over petty virtues, or to create third-rate literature. Let us not then seek to find in the Nation what does not belong there. But we cannot fail to find in its writings a vigor and robustness of thought, a loftiness of aim, that is bred of the highest intelligence and uprightness. We cannot expect the crowd of false...