Word: delight
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Century has been read with pleasure by the undergraduates of Princeton. Being well aware of the gentleman's thorough knowledge of the game as well as of his excellent powers of judgment in such matters, the college has looked forward to the publication of the article with eager delight and with a hearty appreciation of his staunch and able argument for a universal recognition of the game. Probably no one person has been so convinced of the injustice of many leading newspapers in this country in perverting the real nature of the game besides denouncing it as being too brutal...
...Glee Club sang "Schneider's Band," to the great delight of the audience, This was followed by "Down by the River," and "Dutch Company." The latter was encored as Mr. Carpenter captivated the audience by his yodel, Mr. Swarts's solo, "Huttelein" was sung with admirable taste and great depth of feeling. He had to respond to an encore in this truly beautiful song...
...Bruce's "Firdousi" is remarkably smooth, and conveys in delight fully poetic language this pathetic incident connected with the Persian poet's life. The choice of words is in many instances made with exceptional insight, as when he speaks of "jewels which had drunk of fire," or of the "dusty caravan," or again, "an old man, on whose brow the knots of pain were loosened now." No small charm is lent the rhythmic flow of the lines by the melodious oriental names used here and there. The poem is a very welcome departure from the abstruse and would-be metaphysical...
...League has been formed. The movement for an improvement in college base-ball has been favored by us from the first and our opinion was but one in many. Every lover of the national game must read the account published on our first page to-day with satisfaction and delight. Hereafter there will be no doubt about the best nine in the League. Four games with each club will settle the superiority, if there is any to be settled. Our friends in New York will not be able any longer to point to us and say that Harvard is afraid...
...speaks, should deliver an address in Sanders Theatre, seems to remind us once again of the many privileges enjoyed by Harvard students of listening to distinguished gentlemen. But no one, perhaps, has more deeply interested his audience than the speaker of last night. We all acknowledge a thrill of delight in listening to a man who has really fought the Apaches, who knows what it is to be on the warpath and who is not merely a newspaper hero. Although the Cambridge Indian Rights Association, perhaps, did not have Harvard students particularly in mind when Sanders Theatre was selected...