Word: utters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which ought to be held most sacred for "grinding," and any one who forgets this, and wantonly disturbs his fellows is guilty of an almost unpardonable piece of forgetfulness. We would like to keep silence on this subject forever hereafter, but it will probably always be necessary to utter a few words of warning about examination time, and in accordance with the good old custom, we say them...
...Before one has read many of the productions that this year in particular has brought fourth, still another class comes into prominent notice, embracing both the other divisions, which may be fitly characterized as the ridiculous. A few of the verses coming under this head are worthy (from their utter lack of merit) of further consideration than they have yet received. It is really appalling to see how bad verses can be made by one of the "ridiculous poets ;" to be made the unwilling witness of the complete lack of sense and of music their verses show. Recently, we noticed...
...When I returned to Yale the boating prospects were exceedingly gloomy. There was no crew and no promising material with which to form one. Moreover, there were no practice boats, the boat-house was almost abandoned, and there was an utter absence of enthusiasm. In the face of this blank outlook I got a number of men together and gradually injected the new principles into their minds. Their progress was so slow that it was not until three or four days before the race that the men struck the keynote as a crew. Compared with the other ten crews which...
...young lion of the Spirit who penned the above, we would like to suggest that his dictum here stated is unmitigated dogmatism. The familiar rhetorical and journalistic trick of assuming the concurrence of all good and wise men in one's own view of the question, thereby implying the utter folly of your opponent's, is unworthy a journal of the character of the Spirit...
...lockers in the gymnasium are so very small that their contents can but be in utter confusion. One student has helped matters by placing a shelf across the upper part of his locker, to hold his sponge, brush and comb, etc. The shelf is of wire netting, which allows a free circulation of the hot air. The expense of fitting all the lockers with such a shelf would be only a few cents each; in view of the great convenience resulting, it would seem that the authorities ought...