Word: vulgarly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...present take towards our athletics, but it is a healthy and inspiriting attitude, and therefore to be commended. The criticism of the methods of coaching, while a trifle severe is timely; unquestionably there is always the danger that legitimate coaching will, in the excitement of a game, degenerate into vulgar and objectionable tactics which should never be tolerated in a gentleman's game. There is a sensible editorial commending some of the recent amendments to the regulations, and a contribution to the discussion as to whether the final examinations should cover the work of the entire year which goes...
Under the head of "Wah! Wah! Wah! Harvard," is published in the last number of the Spectator, a piece of writing remarkable for its unprecedented character, in that it is a discourteous, ignorant, and even vulgar attack upon Harvard methods in athletics. Worse than the sneer at Harvard's ill-success of the last three years, is the implied accusation of insincerity on the part of the of the leaders in athletics. We do not wish further to characterize the article in question. Harvard men may read it for themselves...
...talk is to modulate; give your words the proper coloring. To say everything is to say too much: true art lies between. Speak so that the most vulgar prose may sound like the most refined poetry...
...Boston Record's stock of campaign ammunition has been reduced to vulgar abuse of Harvard College and Harvard graduates. At last accounts the old college was still there.- Lowell Times...
...ticket, in purchasing, agrees not to give, sell, or part with any Class-Day ticket whatsoever to any objectionable person. (This includes tradesmen, goodies, janitors and servants.)" Let us hope the committee have no relatives or friends who are "tradesmen." Others are not so fortunate. There is a vulgar belief that in this country "a man's a man for a' that." The fathers of several of the faculty and many students are tradesmen. According to the committee, such persons must not be admitted to the yard. It is a pity if students can only judge fitness by vocation. Such...