Word: speak
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...laboring, we will state briefly the present condition of affairs in regard to the arrangements for the next Yale-Harvard base-ball match. The first game will be played in New Haven, the second in Cambridge, and the third in Springfield. The misunderstanding which caused the Record to speak of us in terms more forcible than polite resulted from the fact that the two Nines in fixing the time for the match found difficulty in finding three days which would be equally convenient for both sides, and also from the fact that our Nine suggested at first that the third...
...fundamental rule was, "Let thy thoughts and thy purposes be hidden from the world"; and based upon this were many others, such as, "Glorify thyself, and the world shall glorify thee"; "Keep thine eye open, thy hand ready, and thy mouth shut"; "Revile no man before his face, neither speak ill of him that is more powerful than thyself"; "Bow down before the great and the strong, and let the poor and the weak bow down before thee"; "Smile upon the face of thine enemy, and take thy vengeance in a secret place"; "Let gold and gaudy raiment* be ever...
...arguments by which our young oligarch would betray the demos are not difficult to criticise. They clothe, however, a spirit in the mouth of which a sneer at democracy was most appropriate. It is no mild imputation on gentlemen who are Harvard students, to call them "outside barbarians," and speak of them as men "to whom society is but a name." It bespeaks a snobbish arrogance which should be an anomaly in this country. We thank it for taking on itself the name of oligarchy...
...writer who calls the Biglow Papers, the Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, and Emerson's philosophical essays all belles-lettres; who places Noah Porter, - who could not even express ideas lucidly when appropriated; whose unhappy readers speak of him as of Tupper as a poet or Baird as a philosopher, - a writer who places Porter, as intellectual, opposed antithetically to Emerson and Fiske, as trivial; and who considers Porter's work the culmination of the intellect of Yale, - such a man, we say, has far too low an estimate of Yale's worth for us to contest...
...much more than it would have done had it been built on the Clyde, or in Patagonia for that matter, but then it was strictly national. Every false bolthead was stuck (sic) on by an American citizen. An American citizen built it, and an American company paid - or, to speak more accurately, did not pay - for it. An American company mismanaged it too, and the writer was one of the unhappy victims...