Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wretched and guilty. There is an anarchy in our souls which seems somehow to accuse us of treason and rebellion. But what does all this become in the scheme of fatalism? A delusion, a disease. Guilt cannot slip in through the network of necessary causation. If my ancestors were vicious, if my bringing up was bad, if my temptations were strong, why should I up-braid myself? Yet how am I to account for this consciousness of sin, which is wholly different from the consciousness of folly or misfortune? I may have done myself all the harm imaginable through mere...
...students in the Law or Medical schools, for instance, from rowing with the crew, playing on baseball, or football teams, and in general indulging in sports which are intended as a recreation. Thus a principle which is well meant, and is intended to prevent objectionable features in athletics, is vicious in its tendencies, and its advantages are outweighed by its objectionable results...
...discussion of two hours, through which the society men protracted it, thereby tiring their opponents, the resolution was defeated by only a very small majority. Of the non-secret society men only 20 voted against the resolution, thus showing that the sentiment of the class is decidedly against the vicious system, which, in the strength gained from being winked at by the faculty, is striking at the vitals of Yale. The agitation has created great excitement...
...Clipper says that the recent action of the Harvard Committee in first prohibiting the contest and then permitting it under changed rules repressive of vicious "slugging," unfair "tackling," etc., advertised it, and was the real cause of the enormous crowd which witnessed the Yale game on Thanksgiving...
...pillar because of our criminal laws. Foot-ball can never be anything but a rough, manly sport. For my part I am unwilling to believe that any such low spirit has crept into the game so as to make it dishonest and vicious...