Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Sheridan was weaker than Goldsmith in that his characters were less original. The "Rivals" and the "School for Scandal" are of course the plays for which we remember...
...actual campaign for the Springfield game will open in earnest. This work will be done in secret, behind closed gates. With this secret practice, chances for the usual crop of rumors will be much more favorable, and, in a few days the sensation-makers, who feed on lies and scandal, will be in full enjoymen of their chosen fare. There will be all sorts of guesses about new tricks and soon these scavengers will prove conclusively that tricks won't work against Yale, and that we might just as well give it all up. Such men have a certain influence...
...stop with the class. If a slate is practically elected before it is really elected, if certain athletes get certain places and men from various societies take the rest and the whole thing is a foregone conclusion, the report is immediately taken up by a public greedy for scandal, that at Harvard nothing counts but athletics, wealth and society. Such a report gathers material as it goes and we are soon in disfavor with a large number of people. All this sort of thing has its evil effect on the good name of the University, and no class...
...School for Scandal" will be given on Easter Monday night by the juniors of Boston College...
...subsidy method is unwise and unbusinesslike: Chandler's speech, Cong. Rec. 1891, p. 3550. - (a) Unsuccessful when tried before; Dockery's speech. - (b) Leads to scandal and corruption. - (c) England's example no criterion; Fithian's speech. (d) An unconstitutional measure; John Codman...