Word: vile
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...will admit as soon as any one that some vile stories greatly to the discredit of Aarvard have appeared in the papers, but I am absolutely sure that no Harvard man would lie about his college. The motto "Veritas," behind which the writer in the Graduates' Magazine would hide, is as dear to the student correspondent as to any other undergraduate, or to any graduate; and has, I contend, been as well upheld...
...sympathies than by reason: Forum, XVII, 409.- (2) In Kansas, the elections result less wisely than before women had the suffrage: Nat. Vol. 44, p. 310.- (c) The better class of women would not go to the polls.- (d) The lower classes, under the influence of their husbands and vile politicians, would use their right freely: Nat.vol. 44, p. 310.- (e) The uncounted army of women in brothels and slums would vote under the influence of money.- (f) In New Jersey, woman suffrage was abolished with the concurrence of both sexes, because her corrupt voting rendered the elections of that...
...nearing the social crisis of the world. It is becoming more corrupted and vile every day. The present state of affairs cannot be mended. It must give place to a new order. Either there must come a religion such as the prophets never dreamed of, or rivers of blood must flow-the result of the competition which is grinding and crushing men to death. Sooner or later they who stand for a nobler social order will meet the existing order of things in clearly defined conflict...
Another phase of the athletic question is discussed by Mr. L. McK. Garrison. He argues that to the system of intercollegiate leagues are due "the blocking of useful rules by smaller colleges, the retention of the 'assisted athlete' system, the vile wrangles in the public press, and jockey tricks of every description;"-and all for "the artificial and empty name" of championships. What Harvard wishes now is to play her "nearest neighbor and first rival," whether the arrangement "be called a 'league...