Word: vileness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...great majority of mankind is ruled by the external consideration of their actions and is not impelled by internal life. Some are controlled by public opinion so that they stoop to do vile things because others do. They are simply like atoms in a mass, drops that follow the current, who do not own their own souls. They are often afraid of losing their place in society, often their "gentlemanliness" stands in place of their "manliness. In our age, culture is regarded almost entirely as intellectual. This has its dangers. The danger is that it breeds a haughty reserve...
...language - of our lighter literature has come from Paris - for instance, the kind of short stories that seems to be the prevailing type of American writing now, is, I think, almost altogether a graft from French stock, such writings as Zola's "Contes a Nanon," Guyde Maupassant's somewhat vile anecdotes, and Balzac's "Contes Drolatiques" being its progenitors. And as of the short stories, so of the novels. Balzac seems to me the first novelist who could dissect a woman. Defoe tried to analyze a woman of the lower grade in Roxana, and Peregrine Pickle is such another monument...
...before yesterday a cat created much excitement in N. H. 6. She escaped from durance vile in the biological laboratory of the Agassiz Museum, and in her fright jumped through a pane of glass, and fell from the window, which is in the fifth story, to the ground. She landed squarely on her feet and started off on a run, pursued by several men, but could not be caught...
...other examinations long before, will find a fatal trap for his detention in the Physics on the last day. In the position of this and the English C, that is, the junior English examinations, the faculty has shown its pristine fondness for keeping most of the students indurance vile, when they are eager to fly to far distant homes. The sophomores, however, are fortunate in having no general examination, so that many of them are at liberty a week or more before their more unfortunate brothers. But on the whole the document will be found as judiciously arranged...
...tariff question Harvard has been always accused of a partiality toward free trade, and business men have often felt that in sending their sons hither they were running great risk in that vile free trade notions would grow up in their boys. As we all know, our political economy professors are free traders, but the impartial way in which course one has taken up the subject of the tariff, is a matter of congratulation to all political economy students. The skeptical and impartial manner in which work is generally pursued here is one of the greatest advantages of this college...