Word: ruthless
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...taking part in any disturbance at the opening of the college year, should appeal to the good sense of every Harvard man. We have no sympathy with those who look upon Bloody Monday as a sacred institution and the Faculty in their opposition to it as a body of ruthless iconoclasts. Such a view, for one thing, makes much of what is really a very trivial matter. The fact is that the observances in the Yard of the first Monday of the year are among the last relics of the days when the college man had more of the nature...
...part to help along the plan of the Appalachian Club. A strong expression of feeling from the University might aid materially in preserving the banks of the Charles from being made a hideous spectacle of factories, wharfs and tenement houses; as well as save them from the ravages of ruthless speculators. All we are asked to do is to sign the petitions which have been left in places of easy access-a slight effort in view of what it may help to accomplish...
...more reverentially loyal among the countless admirers of Sir Thomas Mallory and his delightful tales of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table may almost be shocked by the ruthless way in which their heroes have been descrated in Mark Twain's last production "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court." There is a tone about the book which grates harshly upon the sensibilities of the reader-a tone which calls forth the feeling that the author would have succeeded far better had he displayed half the good taste that he has the humor. This last characteristic...