Word: weaknesses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS OF THE HARVARD HERALD: DEAR SIRS - I wish to ask you if the much boasted gentlemanliness and gallantry of Harvard students has not a weak foundation. My daughter says that she cannot walk through the college yard without being stared at by every conceited fellow that chances to pass her. It seems to me that young men with the reputed good breeding of Harvard students would recognize the impropriety - yes, insult of such conduct. I can assure them that I shall make it decidedly unpleasant for any one who hereafter offers the insult to my daughter which I have...
...that must have made poor Dr. McCosh weep. In spite of the attempts of the doctor to make the Princeton students good and orthodox, the New 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...
...indeed," replied Dan, "I've been keepin' seclusive this winter. One reason is that I put my linen duster some place last summer, and forgot where I put it, and the weather's been so cold I didn't want to go out without an overcoat - lungs weak, you know. My friend Jared Sparks used to say that's my weak point - my lungs. I'm busy writin' a thing to speak to the boys in spring - when walkin's good - a lecture on languages, mighty fine - my chief douver - that's French...
...music, which forms so prominent a part in the production of the "OEdipus," was but fairly interpreted, the chorus being especially weak; but after the experience of an evening's performance, much improvement will undoubtedly be shown in the subsequent representations. That the performance was received with much favor was shown by the fact that after the final scene the audience remained seated until Mr. Riddle and Miss Cayvan reappeared on the stage, when they were greeted with round after round of applause...
...Sever, yesterday. The audience was not large. In fact, to judge from the undergraduates present, it would appear that Mr. Perry's lectures are as little popular as his instruction in themes. As a lecturer he is by no means good. His delivery was so poor, his voice so weak, that those in the back of the room would fain have had telephonic communication with the desk. As near as could be gathered his lecture was taken up with a review of Addison, the author's mode of criticism as shown in the "Spectator," an attempt to trace its effects...