Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Pelliparius" does not pretend "to represent Harvard thought": he simply writes of his experiences at Harvard and of such Harvard customs and institutions as will, in his estimation, interest his friends at Andover. It is difficult to find either lunacy or vicious mindedness in such a course; and further, I cannot see what difference it would make in anyone's belief whether he used his true name or an assumed one. A FRIEND OF "PELLIPARIUS...
...arms at this attack and wants to know if that is the way in which Exeter is viewed by Harvard men. We would inform the students there that the presuming young man must be either some escaped lunatic if he has learned that Exeter is disliked here, or some vicious-minded youth who is desirous of doing Harvard all possible harm by advancing his own views or prejudices against a preparatory school to which he for some reason is hostile. We would advise the young gentleman to sign his own name to his attacks hereafter in order that...
...were a few present who took the attack on "snobbery" to themselves and appeared disgruntled that they should be handled so unmercifully-but that is impossible. We can say only that the burden of the speech was, "Restore Harvard to her rightful position in athletics by destroying the present vicious law of compensation." Dinners are times for joviality, and last Friday's banquet was no exception to that rule, but still there was hardly a speech that evening which did not turn upon the evils which had beset and were besetting Harvard life, and there was a spirit of earnestness...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- In last Saturday's CRIMSON appeared a very vicious and wholly uncalled for attack upon the instructor in English 12. The writer complains because the criticisms on his themes are pithy and to the point-because the instructor gives his real opinion in a few words, of poor and hasty work. Is the writer of this bitter invective so thin-skinned that a few short, sharp criticisms penetrate to his very marrow? If so, it proves the thorough efficiency of the instructor; if not, Mr. "English 12" has no right to complain. The instructors at Harvard take...
...Irish grievances arise not from political causes, but on account of a false and vicious land system.- Nation, Sept. 1, 15, 1887; Dicey, England's Case against Ireland; Kay's Free Trade in Land...