Word: temperedly
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...this singular hostility to an undoubted need and trust on the part of many of our higher seminaries of learning, there are diverse reasons, more or less radical and cogent, more or less obscure or plain. First of all, this temper is a reaction against the spread eagle and unkempt oratory of frontier and semi-civilized congressmen in the old days whose deliverances in the Capitol were often grotesque and amusing - speech run mad and descending into oblivion in a very whirlwind of sound. Diseased oratory should give place to orators duly taught by our colleges, which exist to teach...
...Alumni of the oldest college in the land surrounding in their right of sonship the maternal board, the reflection that there nowhere exists for me an Alma Mater, gives rise to a feeling of regret, which the cordiality of your welcome and which your reassuring kindness can only temper. If the fact be recalled that but twelve out of twenty-one who occupied before me the chair which I now have the honor to fill, had the advantage of a collegiate education, a proof is presented of the democratic sense of our people and not an argument against the supreme...
...great uncertain ocean of the future, we are more ready to listen to the malarial voices which cry to us from the shore "Begone! Begone!" than to hear the great deep, with its unbounded inspirations bidding us "Come on! Come on!" Who of us does not know this temper of our good mother, and of how sedulously she instills it in her children...
...there is any truth in the proverb that the smell of the bullock's blood is apt to beget a savagery in the slayer, the sweet voice of our Katharine may not have been without avail in mollifying the asperities of temper - if he had any - in that young Surrey butcher, Robert Harvard...
...perennial Yale-Princeton squable in regard to foot-ball has begun. The Princetonian declares that the Yale men lost their temper during the convention in New York last week, and that such an action is greatly to be deplored because the present is one of the few cases on record when Yale has not had hes own way. The Princetonian further urges that as Princeton now holds the championship, Yale must come to Princeton if she wishes to contest the title to that championship...