Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...publish in another column a communication on a recent extraordinary article on Harvard in the Boston Herald. We do not think that the writer of this article deserves all the scorn which our correspondent heaps on his head, but nevertheless, a fellow of his stamp may do incalculable harm if he is only persevering enough, and can find an audience for his productions. Unfortunately this audience is large and constant; colleges and college-bred men are always subjects of ridicule in a country where the majority of the inhabitants have for years been accustomed to look upon "self-made...
...fellow who has written these things about his own college, he probably knows no better, and therefore deserves pity, not scorn and loathing. He probably is some wretched, half-witted being, living in a very musty and unclean garret, tenanted by vermin, who scribbles to order, that he may keep his miserable anatomy alive. He would slander his own grandmother at five dollars a column. Therefore, gentle reader, though you may be inclined to revile him bitterly, - don't; he knows no better. "It's his conception of the part." and he means no offence...
...certainly gives a comfortable feeling to Harvard men, to think that almost anywhere they may go, from Maine to California, they can find near them a group of friends and fellow students, on which they can enter as guests, but as more than guests also, as past members...
Edward Dowden, Esq., Professor of English Literature in the University of Dublin. W. S. Courthope, Esq., Education Department, Whitehall. Harold A. Perry, Esq., Fellow of King's College, Cambridge...
...given his muse full play and the muse had refused to say anything more, Dr. McCosh quietly took his departure and boarded the next train for Princeton. He was as indignant as a Scotchman who thinks he has cause to be generally is, and when his friends and fellow-workers at the college heard the version of all that had happened at Harvard's celebration they were indignant, too, and extremely glad that Dr. McCosh had absented himself from the banquet that was designed to act as a sort of capstone to the celebration...