Word: bitterest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Williams, '88, for the negative, said that of all prejudices, the religious ones are the bitterest, most vindictive and tenacious. He repudiated the attacks made by the affirmative on the baneful influence of the Catholic church and clergy, the assertion that Catholic parochial schools would be disloyal, utterly false. Moral training without religious teaching has very little effect...
...cannot but speak of the captain of the nine in this connection. He has worked hard and faithfully for the interests of the nine and for Harvard. Assuming the duties of his office at a time when everything looked bright for Harvard, he has met with the bitterest disappointment. The only consolation he has is that Harvard's lack of success is not in any way due to his poor playing or his mismanagement. His playing throughout the year can be characterized in no other way than as brilliant, and his management has been eminently satisfactory. To have the pleasure...
...full-dress rehearsal of the Pi Eta theatricals takes place this afternoon at 3 o'clock; there will be given the drama, "Our Bitterest Foe," and the farce, "Grimshaw, Bagshaw and Bradshaw...
...treat every little, thoughtless act with the utmost severity, as if it were premeditated, and were intended to shake the peace of the Commonwealth to its very foundation. Last year the freak of the freshmen at Oscar Wilde's lecture would have made the subject of editorials of the bitterest kind, denouncing not only the sixty "bold, bad men," but also the whole college. They now pass lightly over what last year would have been a good subject for the indignant utterances of the editorial pen, and even say that the freshmen did a good thing. This change...