Word: utterer
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...expect to win honors, and so backed out of the R. A. A. C. and now, in refusing to row Cornell in eight-oars, she shows the same lack of courage. If this gentleman really believes what he has written, he must have an unlimited faculty for swallowing utter nonsense and twaddle of the rankest description. It is all very well for Cornell and Columbia to accuse Yale and Harvard of cowardice, and if it affords them innocent amusement, it assuredly has no effect upon us. All their talk will not make Harvard and Yale feel anything but that...
...Princeton, and the following year they should visit Cambridge, and so on. At this point the delegates from Yale arrived. In answer to the question as to whether they had full power to act or not, they replied in the negative. This at once made the meeting an utter waste of time, as far as making arrangements with Yale was concerned, for her delegates could do nothing about playing with fifteen men until, they said, "a meeting of the College was called and the matter discussed." Mr. Camp, in behalf of Yale, challenged Harvard to a game with eleven...
ATHLETICS.IT is comforting, in these trying times of Lawn Tennis and utter indifference to all things athletic, to see that there are still a few men in college who have the energy and courage to train for and enter in athletic sports outside the college. The action of Mr. Simmons, '80, in entering and starting in the mile-race at the Y. M. C. A. sports held in the Music Hall, as a representative of this college, is worthy of all praise and imitation. Messrs. Cushing, '78, and Benham, '81, entered in the fencing contest, which Mr. Benham...
Corrected my expression with an utter lack of sense...
...criticise a neighbor's work without asserting one's own superiority over him. We hold that a man can see clearly the mote in his brother's eye, even while he has the beam in his own eye; therefore we feel at liberty to cry out loudly against the utter weariness, staleness, flatness, and unprofitableness of the poetry in college papers. Such poems as the "Thunder Tempest" and "Music" in the Bates Student are fair samples of our average mediocrity, and the result is to make a piece such as the "River Concord," in the Amherst Student, shine like...