Word: utters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meanings in it. Possible enough to see no meaning, to think of it all as a long dynasty of accidents, chance killing chance and taking possession of the vacant throne. If that is all, then nobody can guess at the future from the past. On into utter recklessness or back into a darker and severer superstition than any from which she has escaped. Either way this chance-governed, ungoverned world of ours may go. Possible to give it all a low meaning. Possible enough to see in it nothing but the casting of restraint after restraint, in order that...
...breathlessly for the spectacle; but none of them were visible in the darkness. Two rockets shot up ward as signals and then on a sudden, as by a single flash, the old castle burst into a glare of crimson fire. Green light appeared below it; but all else was utter gloom. It was a wonderful sight. Every nook and cranny of the great building was flooded with the fiery glow, as it stood out in unrelieved intensity from the black mountain side. Thus it must have looked when Tilly paused on the Terrace to look back at the glorious...
...secrecy and exclusiveness," a decrease in the monetary support of all athletic teams as well as the secondary expenses incurred by a personal support; and finally the discontinuance of all inter-collegiate contests. Now little knowledge of Harvard or of any great university is needed to show the utter impossibility of accomplishing such fundamental reforms without the strictest regulations upon the part of the faculty, seconded by the most determined stand made by parents; and, what is more, by a thorough reform of the personal character of the students themselves. It is true that great and needless expenses are incurred...
...crew is asked a question, mysterious winks and dubious monosyllabic replies are all the satisfaction usually obtained. When the university crew is beaten in a two mile race by a class crew, no explanation is offered and the old, old threadbare subterfuge is adopted, the blind, unreasoning method of utter silence impressed on every man in the university boat. Harvard is not afraid to do her work openly and is not afraid of giving us points, whether in her favor or ours. She tries to win and frequently accomplishes that end without a code of unwritten law on the concealment...
...inches. Instead of this, all ladies who come to the base-ball games are forced to choose between personal discomfort or some other person's discomfort; between watching the game in the full glare of the sun in silent anguish, and the alternative of raising their parasols, to the utter annihilation of the persons behind them...