Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Rosenthal '98, the last Harvard speaker, took up and carefully considered the evils threatening our republican institutions from the present influx of ignorant and vicious foreigners. It is more important, said he, that we should protect these institutions than that we should seek to benefit the ill-conditioned and unfortunate people of Europe. Whereas, for the first fifty or sixty years after the adoption of the Constitution, our population was augmented almost entirely by people who had had experience in self-government, today the additions come from countries where the people are degraded and the democratic idea hardly exists...
...penalty without the name of the offender, and shall further inform them that both the offence and the offender are known by the members of the Faculty, we believe will indirectly justify itself. The greater part of cheating in written work is due to thoughtlessness rather than to any vicious instinct, and a method of appealing to the better side of individuals is sure to be effective...
...chief function of the Athlelic Committee is to exercise guidance over contests in the field. By guidance is not meant an unfriendly interference with the games, but a kindly aid, with a firm development of athletics for the future. In the past, athletics have led to vicious practices and guidance became necessary...
...undersigned, members of the classes of 1897, '98, '99, and 1900, while recognizing fully the wantonness of the disturbance on Tuesday night, January 26, believe it to have been due rather to the thoughtlessness of the men engaged in it than to any vicious purpose and we beg the Administrative Board to treat with leniency the students detected in the use of explosives on that night...
...undersigned members of the class of 1898, while recognizing fully the wantonness of the disturbance on Tuesday night, Jan. 26, believe it to have been due rather to the thoughtlessness of the men engaged in it than to any vicious purpose, and we beg the Administrative Board to treat with leniency the students detected in the use of explosives on that night...