Word: discordant
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...voted for the men they thought best fitted for the places, and not, contrary to express understanding, for sectional nominees. The results of the elections were, as a whole, very satisfactory, and the announcements of the results were received with apparent good feeling. If proper officers and absence of discord lead to a successful Class Day, '80 will not need to have any fear for next June...
...congratulated. That a class so large, so earnest in society matters, and of such different interests, could harmoniously unite to secure the most open and unbiased election that recent years have shown, seemed almost impossible, and yet it is true. Those croakers who declared that Class Day produced more discord than pleasure, and advocated its abolition, are completely silenced; and all friends of that time-honored institution can quietly rejoice. Especially should the under classes feel glad that they have such a precedent to follow, and that, instead of the usual troubled season of caucuses and partisan tickets, they...
...depart thence. But in spite of the antipathy displayed for the organ-grinder by the powers that preside over our studies, the student himself will infinitely prefer the performances of that much-abused personage, to those of the man overhead whose rowing-weights send forth a most distressing discord, half rumble, half squeak, or, still worse, whose religious enthusiasm finds its vent in practising Tabernacle tunes on a reed-organ. No sane person would hesitate to decide that "Just in time for Lanergan's ball" rendered on a good hand-organ by jist the very boy that knows all about...
...tossed it back, in scorn, at Discord's feet...
...lyre with discord was entwined...