Word: vileness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dealt with by the courts, but it concerns every man who respects his college, to remember that it is a public misfortune to feed the prejudice against colleges as nurseries of disorder, extravagance, and dissipation." An editorial on the same subject in the current Frank Leslie's is too vile and violent to deserve an answer...
...York Times probably has some good reason for saying that "the Princeton College boys have never won special glory for weak-mindedness and pretty deportment. There is much more whole-heartedness in the way they make investments in beer than in their contributions to the Sunday school cause, and vile rumor has insinuated that poker parties are more to the Princetonian taste than are missionary meetings. All in vain has the genial old Scotch president bewailed this condition of affairs. His mild admonitions, his lectures, long drawn out and frequently repeated, his pleas and threats, all alike have fallen...
...From vile conditions
...love is worth a world of such vile things...
...College papers please copy, with the addition, "This low, dastardly, ill-bred attack is only a mark of the idiotic brain which invented it. Such vile, underhanded reptilian onslaughts can only have proceeded from a narrow, bigoted, Pharisaical fool." That, we think, is the usual style...