Word: timed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...References : Shaftesbury's "Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humor"; Akenside's "Pleasures of the Imagination," note on 3d Book; Bentham's "Works," Vol. 11. pp. 114, 360. Specimens of ridicule employed argumentatively : many of Swift's Works, The Spectator passim, British Essayists, Petroleum V. Nasby's Letters. Time, second Monday in May. 2d division : Are we justified in pursuing sports which have for their aim or issue the suffering and death of the lower animals? References : Works of Soame Jenyns, Vol. III. p. 186 et seq.; Memoirs of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society...
...blame for the ill-bred conduct of some members of his class. The Faculty is recommended to discharge the instructor at the end of the year, and it is suggested that it might be well for the University if he should be dismissed even before that time...
...Will Old Time's fancy tickle...
...print elsewhere a challenge received this week from the Harvard Boat-Club. Comment upon this document seems almost to be uncalled for. The object of a challenge sent at such a time in the year, and couched in such terms, must be obvious to all, and can, without further explanation from the Harvard Boat-Club, be considered as merely a 'sporting dodge' probably sent with an underlying purpose...
...Nassau Lit. for March shows, and acknowledges that it shows, "an irritated sensibility" in regard to the troubles at Princeton. It is especially severe on Cornell in general, and on the Era in particular, and calls attention to the disturbances at Cornell some time ago. The Princetonian also uses the "tu quoque" argument as a weapon of defence, by complaining of the daily papers' silence in regard to the Yale men's reception of Count Johannes. The Princetonian is entirely occupied with the pistol-fight, and contains accounts of the affray, editorial comments, words for the Freshmen, words...