Word: tenderness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Several tender-hearted Juniors in the zoology optional were startled by the information that they would be expected to practice vivisection.-[Yale News...
...worker, and a Christian gentleman, -faithful, simple, pure; all who knew him were strongly attracted toward him, and his untimely end is felt as a personal loss; and the class desires to pay honor to his many noble qualities, to mark them as examples of manly virtue, and to tender its heartfelt sympathy to his parents in this their bitter hour...
...discount in their public assemblies, and, indeed in the whole theory and practice of their lives? Not, I think, what has been obtained in lecture-room, or recitation-room, so much as in these surroundings which suggest deep and quiet reflection,- these accretions of historic interest, these embodiments of tender sentiment. It is good for any student to feel that wise and true men have labored at his university before him,- that their quiet constructive work has been recognized,- that it outlasts the din and applause of stump speeches, and special pleadings of caucuses and conventions. That is the significance...
Without the slightest wish to be officious in any way, we tender our sincere congratulations to the fair unknown, that the author of the verse is not a "little bird," and has not "two little wings," nor three, nor four little wings either as some birds apparently have, and that "it cannot be." It is possible that we mistake the poet's meaning in this verse, but really, we have not been able to discover any, and so had to invent one for ourselves...
...Junior forensic due today-Subject: 1. A criticism of the recent decision of the Supreme Court in the legal-tender case. 2. England's Egyptian policy. 3. A criticism of Sumner's "What Social Classes owe to each other." 4. What are the conditions under which a Republican form of Goverment may be expected to do permanent? 5. Have we any knowledge independent of experience? Any of the subjects for the fourth senior forensic may also be taken by juniors...