Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Brophy, the last American "suspect" in Ireland, has been released...
...HARVARD HERALD: Thursday evening the last of the Harvard Union debates drew its usual small audience. In comparison with the enthusiasm evinced in smaller colleges, Harvard shows a most remarkable indifference in regard to debating societies. May be that the oratorical spirit of our age is declining, but we suspect that the belief is gaining ground that extempore speaking can be acquired without much training. It should be remembered that seven years' practice in New England school-houses gave skill to Wendell Phillips, and one of the finest characteristics of Burke's writing comes from life-long habit of extemporaneous...
...period, he was a disappointed candidate for a degree, and, on this account, cherishes only bitter feelings against the whole college world. This reason for such caustic satire seemed at first plausible, but, on re-reading several editorials, nothing was found that would for a moment lead one to suspect him of having received a liberal college education. If dyspepsia is the cause of his sourness, which we are inclined to think is the case, let him carefully read the advertisements in the paper he represents, and among them he will surely find some remedy...
...Oberlin Review of March 25th," says the Chronicle, "has well answered the Herald, although, if we remember rightly, Harvard requires a little more than the Review stated." Here was where we first began to suspect the mental condition of the writer in the Chronicle; that our own poor short-comings and those of this great university should be so confounded by the Chronicle is lamentable, to say the least, if not indicative of erratic thoughts. "Harvard," continues the Chronicle, with an evident determination to do its duty in the premises and spare no one,-"Harvard is by far the most...
...once participated in them. Taken individually and in broad daylight, a stripling who attends college seems harmless enough. Look at this slight young man in his room, bending lazily or earnestly over his books as the case may be. He appears commonplace, quiet and orderly. But few would suspect the latent wealth of stone-throwing, howling and sign-disturbing possibilities that lies hidden away in his slight form. What causes these demonstrations? That is a question which has baffled the strongest light of modern research, and the problem is still wrapped in mystery. Begun in barbaric ages, when those...