Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...even then all of the universities which are now flourishing in Europe were founded with any idea of the many branches of learning which are now so temptingly offered to allure the ambitious student. It is certain that the founders of the first colleges in this country had no suspicion of the manner in which they would broaden out in the course of two centuries and make the purpose for which they were originally intended subservient to the interests of the more liberal education. As is well known, Harvard was originally founded as a college to train ministers...
...been the new base-ball league. The vote of the mass meeting which empowered Princeton's delegates in the matter had not a dissenting voice. Columbia was welcomed as a member, and it is the desire of all Princeton men that Yale lay aside her accustomed feeling of suspicion and stubbornness, and sympathize with the movement. It is the universal opinion that she will be compelled so to do, or be boycotted by the trio of colleges...
...watch her natural rivals contending amongst themselves; for it is our hope that Harvard, Princeton and Columbia will now join hands and continue the formation of the new league, and let Yale enjoy her empty honors. Yale has no reason to hold back on account of some groundless suspicion that combinations will be formed against her by the rival colleges, for, under the proposed rules of the new association, a unanimous consent would be necessary for the adoption of any important measure. Such a suspicion is unmanly, and would be justifiable only in the supposition of previous unfair action...
...George Adee, Walter Badger, and Sam Bremner - were opposed to the scheme; and their opposition seems to have converted all those who had previously inclined the other way. Like the chicken who was convinced that the sky was falling, when a rose leaf dropped upon her back, the dim suspicion of an "alliance" between Harvard and Princeton frightened the Yalensians into refusing. "Treason! Treason!" was the general cry of the assembly...
...partial judgement of the conference committee, of which the marking system is the sole surviving result, the result of two years thinking by many honorable gentlemen. Shall we ask if it is a worthy result? No, the conference committee is like Caesar's wife above (or at least beyond) suspicion...