Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...celebrated divine. The reverend gentleman undertakes to show that the state of morals of Harvard suffers by comparison with that of colleges where co-education exists. The article is so rabid in its denunciation of Harvard as a school for virtuous young men, and so laudatory of the pure and virgin-like atmosphere of institutions where young women exert their elevating and refining influence on the beatic youths, whom by daily converse they keep from the sins that would condemn them to the eternal torments of the wicked, &c., &c., - the sermon, we say, so teems with such sentimental platitudes...
...divine compassion,' women can properly associate with and patronize Oscar Wilde. 'Tender hope and divine compassion' are not for rakes. Mrs. Howe may properly invite the repentant, but not the unrepentant Magdalen or roue to her house. For our part, we acknowledge a shiver when we hear a presumably pure woman speak familiarly the name of Oscar Wilde. We know that there may be men in the company who will wonder whether she has read his foulest story ever put into English verse. Delicate lips do not like to repeat the name of a certain innocent but foulscented beast. Much...
...Muller's translation of Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" has been published in England...
Drury has a new brand of cigars, manufactured expressly to his order, of "Vuelta Abajo" pure Havana stock. The brand is christened "The Harvard Daily Herald." The quality is very fine and a large sale is insured, and we heartily recommend them...
...work on "Metaphysics," by Prof. B. P. Blowne of Boston University, has been published by the Harpers, for which they make the most extravagant claims. For instance, "This is the most important contribution to metaphysical science that has been made since Kant's work on 'Pure Reason.' It is, in fact, the prolegomena to all future systems in a more important sense than Kant's work was. Indeed, the first principles of metaphysics are so apparent from a consideration of this work that they may be considered as finally established." Professor Blowne "thrusts aside the evolution theory," and herein will...