Word: worsted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...about Memorial, we need not insert his communication unless we wanted to. To this man we must confess ourselves infinitely obliged; really, we had never thought of such a thing as inserting his article-in the waste-basket until we received his kind permission. But this is not the worst; while we are torn by dissensions at home, foreign enemies take arms against us. Every mail brings us some paper in which we are horrified to find some marked article about "discrepancies." Why, it has become our b&?;te noire; it follows us everywhere, sleep brings us no balm...
...Worst of it was, my Ibex, I knew it was so, and I've been feeling quite badly about it. So I thought I'd do penance by reading our worthy contemp...
...overpleased to buy even a "Harvard Shakespeare" from Mr. Hudson's hands. In fact, we would rather purchase "Harvard neckties," "Harvard ulsters," and "Harvard bicycles." Of all forms of quackery which Harvard has in times past been forced to lend her name to, literary quackery is the worst; and we wish it could be distinctly understood by the outside world (as it will not be) that Hudson's "Harvard Shakespeare" is not a Harvard book...
...order to gain the Highest Honors? In other words, is the scale on which Final Honors are given a fixed one, or does it vary with each class? The result of the last examinations tends strongly to show the scale is a variable one, and that it is the worst of misfortunes for a good scholar to be in the same class with an extraordinary scholar, such as '81 possesses...
...trouble of making repeated requests to have the books handed in, and of examining and arranging them afterwards; the students would be free from the annoyance of obtaining and handing in blue-books, and from the danger of forgetfulness or neglect; while the expense would be, at the worst, no greater than at present. This is the plan adopted at most colleges, excepting that the college governments pay the expenses, and we see no reason why the present awkward and complicated system should be longer continued at Harvard...