Word: utters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...indifference. Not to speak of the neglect of the musical opportunities afforded by Boston, the number of students attending Mr. Henschel's concerts in Sanders itself was disproportionately small; while the concerts which Prof. Paine arranged, on his personal responsibility, in Sever, were a failure through the utter indifference of the students, for whose benefit they were intended. As for the Glee Club and Pierian, they have been continually disheartened by the apathy of the students. Year by year we must add to the trouble of rehearsing that of a personal canvass in and out of the college, succeeding with...
...buildings was shown, and the average number burned for the last eight years was given. For churches the average is two a week. A diagram of a combustible hotel was next shown, warranted, as the lecturer remarked, "to burn in half an hour." Hotels are built with such an utter disregard of fire, that an average of one and one-fourth a day are destroyed...
...they should not discuss these questions more than they do at present. The present feeling at Harvard seems to be that politics is a question sacred to the family hearth, that must not be touched upon by outsiders. Mingled with this feeling there seems to be a feeling of utter hopelessness, as if politics were buried so deep in the mire that respectable men would accomplish nothing beyond soiling their hands by interfering. This state of things is a deplorable one. Politics and the science of government should occupy a prominent place in the teachings of a university. Professors...
...which they expressed themselves as determined to see that the seniors received justice at the hands of the faculty. They instructed their committees to notify the seniors that unless the faculty reinstated them soon on reasonable terms they would withdraw from the institution. The seniors, feeling that this meant utter ruin to the institution, whose interest they have at heart, decided if possible to overlook the wrongs which they have received at the hands of the faculty, and make amends for their act of disobedience by submitting the following apology under protest, all of which seems to redound far more...
...personal attack of the New York Tribune upon him for his free trade doctrines. "It is not to the advantage of Yale College," the Tribune cried, excitedly, "that shallow and one-sided dogmatism directs its instruction in a science of the highest practical importance." Its editor then proceeds to utter an ominous warning to any other professors or colleges who may make so bold as to uphold free trade heresies...