Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...correction of the mistake made yesterday, we look forward with cheerful expectancy to the mails which shall bring to us the next week's numbers of our widely scattered and highly esteemed contemporaries. "The decline of Harvard's popularity" will form a large part of their editorial comments, we suspect...
...dear, don't suspect...
There is something almost pathetic in Yale's present attitude. Condemned by Princeton, Columbia and Harvard, seriously accused by the first, mildly warned by the second, and soundly rated by the third, her lot is not a happy one. There are, we suspect, in this business, a number of very important morals lying hid, that our erring sister would do very well to take to heart. Yet Yale's favorite and traditional attitude is a belligerent one, and we doubt very much if she will take it all with any very good grace; rather, we are led uncharitably to suspect...
...that the young men in an institution where co-education prevailed would be benefited by the constant association with the other sex; that their manners would be refined, and that they would early grow out of their boyish roughness. But I cannot imagine equal benefit to the girls. I suspect no danger in co-education to the character of the students; it merely seems to me an experiment without necessity. We know that if girl students attend faithfully to their duties at their own colleges they graduate accomplished women, and what more do we want? That co-education is declared...
...other day I marked 98 deg. in the shade, my high-water mark. I happened to meet a neighbor ; so we mopped our brows at each other ; he told me he had just cleared 100 deg., and I went home a beaten man. I might suspect his thermometer (as indeed I did, for we Harvard men are apt to think ill of any graduation but our own,) but it was a poor consolation." - [J. R. Lowell...