Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...writer in the last number of the Advocate in defending the policy of the paper under the new management says that its purpose will be "to combat, not foster the growing spirit of Harvard indifference, than which no worst pest was ever sent from below," This certainly is a very worthy endeavor, but we feel that the writer has made an implication which is decidedly untrue to college life at present . We wonder on what grounds the Advocate can maintain that there is a growing spirit of "Harvard indifference," The term is one which we believed had almost passed...
...prevented from speaking by illness. He said, We are most of us out of harmony, here at least, with our religious surroundings, for a large part of the students and many of the authorities of the college have opinions entirely different from ours upon all such matters. The worst part of it is that many people feel that it is not worth while to discuss religion and that it is immaterial what a man believes. This is a most demoralizing and hurtful way to look at a very serious subject. No one who stops to think will deny that...
...deanship at Ireland, embraced the Irish cause, and hurled her rage and wrongs against England. It was at this time that his "Gulliver's Travels" appeared. - beautiful, vivacious, intense in realization and grotesque in combination. Yet, though his best-known work, it is not his most meritorious nor his worst representative...
...would be hard to imagine a tamer fight. It is a picture of a wild hog with two dogs on him and three or four more looking on with a sleepy kind of interest. The effect is almost absurd. The illustrations of "A Comedy of Counterplots" are the worst in the number; one is a fanciful portrait of two men dancing hand in hand in a most unnatural position. It would be far pleasanter to have appearances left to the reader's imagination than to have all pleasant ideas of the characters dispelled by such lifeless and ridiculous pictures...
...broken, and they were forced again into secret war. The law that declared that all firms shall be treated alike really intensified the inequality. Since reductions are illegal, they must be secret, and thus are sown the seeds of great monopolies much more dangerous than the railroads at the worst...