Word: delight
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Brigham died at first; Dann and Bremner got in runs on battery errors to the wild delight of their supporters; the next two men went out in order. Harvard went out in order also...
...prominent member of '89 received a letter from a legal firm in Boston bidding him call at once and avoid trouble. He hurried in town in great trepidation and found to his delight and chagrin that there was no firm of the name in Boston...
...contented with the age he lived in, he firmly believed that it was better than all that had preceded it. As for the future, his firm faith was that it would be better than the present. Utterances of Carlyle, George Eliot, and many other writers show with what delight his pure hopeful philosophy was welcomed by the intellectual world. He had many traits in common with Wordsworth; but he was a much broader man. He taught the nineteeeth century to hope, and for this lesson we cannot be too thankful...
...human liking for scandal. We are all very glad to hear something deliciously wicked about any prominent person, about Congress, about Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Harvard. It tickles us to learn that others are so depraved: for we seem righteous in comparison. And so long as people take delight in the sins of others, so long will newspapers continue to invent their pleasing little anecdotes about our iniquities. There is no help...
...members of the CRIMSON board are all virtuosos. We are all fond of old china, of bric-a-brac, of everything quaint, curious and antique. We take delight in rare old editions of rare old books in rare old bindings. We even enjoy rare old jokes, and racy remarks. We do not object to having the Advocate and the Lampoon fling their merry jests at us, for they must fill up their columns, and their jocose sayings are not able to hurt. But we should urge a plea to the Lampoon to vary the style of its lively quip...