Word: harshly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rounds of the college of late condemning the recent regulations of the faculty forbidding dropped men from entering as contestants in home athletic games. It is very easy of course to account for the general college sentiment in the matter, and certainly at first thought the restriction does seem harsh. A little careful reflection, however, puts the subject in a new light. If the student will but fairly ask himself the question, "what after all is the purpose of college life?" he cannot fail to see the justice of the faculty's regulation. College life is free and easy...
...Carlyle that it was a "decrepit, death-sick era," when Addison, Defoe, Richardson founded the essay, the newspaper, the novel, when Burns, Goethe, Schiller were enriching poetry; when science was making enormous strides under the impulse of Franklin, Newton, Herschel. The writer concludes with a comparison of "Carlyle's harsh estimate" with "Mr. Lecky's admirable summary...
...This treaty is highly advantageous to the United States. (a) England has surrendered her claims in the headlands question: N. Y. Herald, Feb. 25, '88, p. 3; Feb. 26, '88, p. 9.- (b) Harsh treatment of our sailors by Canada will be prevented: N. Y. Herald, Feb. 22, '88, p. 3.- (c) The privileges of buying bait and transshipping fish may be secured at any time under this treaty: Art. 15 of Treaty...
...this is, even now, not the exception, but almost the custom, in spite of the rulings of the umpires. In fact, these very men who should have stopped this have ruled too carelessly upon interference, while being very stringent regarding foul tackling and slugging. No umpire can bee too harsh in ruling upon striking, nor indeed upon actual foul tackling; but seizing a man at his hips is perfectly fair and legitimate, as is also seizing him about the head, providing he be not choked. So hard has been the ruling this season that many a fine tackler is absolutely...
...sort painful for the moment, but not grave; for one serious accident, such as befell Captain Holden last week, there could probably be counted a larger proportion in base ball, in lacrosse, or even in the usual course of regular gymnastic training. But no comment is too harsh to represent the ordinary estimate of foot-ball. It is "brutal," it is "ungentlemanly," it is "closely allied to the manners of the prize ring," it is "barbaric," it is "dangerous;" and no representation of friend or lover is strong enough to do away with the rudeness of impression which a first...