Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...continuance will bring the country to a silver basis with all its attendant evils; (b) gold will disappear; (c) the credit of the United States will be impaired; (d) the people, both laborers and capitalists, will suffer; (e) international trade will be carried on with great difficulty.- North American Review, June, 1885, Oct., 1886; Jevon's Currency and Finance, pp. 305 and 306; Nation...
These meetings will be reported abroad as entirely a student movement. They must be so in reality. It cannot afford to have the credit of success and let other people pay for it. Probably there are gentlemen in Boston who would not suffer them to cast ridicule instead of honor upon the college by failing through lack of money. Perhaps we may reasonably expect some outside backing, as the sum needed is not small; but it would be humiliating if we had to ask for it either in small or large amounts...
...have nervous disturbances, all of which suggests that mental qualities are involved, as well as bodily ones, in the production of the athlete. We have heard the statement made, by one who knew what he spoke of, that college men who aspire to success in both studies and athletics suffer in their constitutions. To restrain such from exertions which they can not safely make should be, and is one of the duties of a professor of physical culture...
...create about the steps of Memorial and the chapel, is no little matter, and their dismissal will be hailed by all as a great boon. It may be hard on the boys, but their noise and squabbles are the cause. In this as in other things the innocent must suffer with the guilty...
...complaint regarding the execrable ventilation of the library. It is Harvard's boast to have a library which possesses more advantages for students than that of any other University in this country; but of what benefit are the treasured books if, in order to read them one has to suffer either a close, shiftin atmosphere or to endure such a continuous current of cold air beating down on one's head as to confine him in his room for a day or so with a bad cold or a sore throat. Prof. Childs was compelled to stay in his house...