Word: vehementer
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Wright was always looked upon as a philosopher, but more practical than speculative. "His practical philosophy seemed equal to any emergency; and no strange and unexpected circumstances ever excited him to any more vehement expressions than the utterance of his sole exclamatory oath, `By Zeus!' uttered with a tone of unmingled surprise." With his chosen few, and with them only, he was a brilliant conversationalist...
AMONG the most vehement, if not the most just, complaints constantly occurring, and the subject of nine tenths of the communications sent to the College papers, is the practical grievance suffered by all undergraduates in College buildings arising from the shabby treatment their rooms receive at the hands of the so-called "Goodies." A few years ago the rooms were far more simply furnished; but now a man's room is not a bad exponent of his character and circumstances, and with better accommodations college rooms have grown to be more inhabitable and more home-like. It seems a shame...
...that talent should be so misapplied, at the expense of his columns, so hungry for copy. The most favorite subject seems to be "Popular Men"; and these rather indefinite creatures are made the objects of sarcasm and raillery, and the system of society elections and class politics meets with vehement abuse. Writing on such matters is absurd. We know, all of us, that our "systems," like all others, have their faults; we know, too, that to attempt to revolutionize them would be ridiculous. As matters stand at present, classes get on smoothly enough; then why try, by circulating discontented...