Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...birth alone are amateurs. In a democratic country like America, every man, no matter what his birth or station, is entitled to be considered a gentleman until he proves himself otherwise, and therefore is classed as amateur until he enters the professional ranks. That it would be a bitter pill for an English crew, composed possibly of English blue blood, to be defeated by a crew of horny-fisted American carpenters, every one must see; still, as the English sporting motto is supposed to be "Let the best man win," it would seem that our transatlantic cousins might suppress their...
...writer (or perhaps writers) of the article in your recent issue, entitled "A Progressive Age," satirized, as far as he was able, pretty much everything in a rather bitter way. He ended up by favoring us with his views on the Philosophical Society that has been started by some who elect that branch of study. He evidently laughs at the idea of it, as he appeared to do at that of all societies and clubs of which he is not a member; for instance, the Art Club, the Telephone Society, and perhaps others could be mentioned...
...mental gymnasium, - the new hall for recitation and lecture rooms. That these rooms will be properly heated and ventilated, after all that has been said on the subject, we may reasonably expect. There are other points, however, that may be overlooked by those who have not profited by bitter experience. The windows, for instance, in the University recitation-rooms are, in nine cases out of ten, so arranged as to throw the sunlight right into the faces of the class, and to envelop the instructor in a deep shadow, whence, like the Homeric gods, he can see without being seen...
...that "hardly a day dawns" but Americans are "startled by the publication of a new book." Should this be a story-book, "it is our greatest anxiety to have it, not thinking for a moment on what it contains; whether good or bad, it is all the same." The "bitter consequences," of course, are the "injuring of the brain by losing all the intellectual faculties and also ruining the body by sickness," to say nothing of the fact that it leads one into "the worst of crimes." What a hot-bed of iniquity Gore Hall must...
...that the four years' course might not serve to eradicate. As at the present day the classes are so large as to stand greatly in the way of class associations, ought we not, each one of us, to try to do all we can, at least, to keep out bitter sentiment...