Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I saw the other day in the CRIMSON a stanza of an old ballad, about which it may interest your readers to know more. It was composed by Jabez Allen of Stoneham. This Allen was a hard character generally, who took a particular delight in pulling down the dam which flowed Spot Pond meadows, owned by one Timothy Sprague. On one occasion while he was at his usual sport, Sprague saw him, and ordered him to desist, whereupon he wounded Sprague with a charge of buckshot. Either for this or for some other escapade, he was sentenced...
...hail the news that at last, after so much weary waiting, the students of Harvard University are to be removed ex tenebris and introduced into the light of knowledge with keen delight. In fancy we see the pointed windows of Gore Hall pouring forth a flood of cheerful light over the snowbound wastes leading to Harvard street on one hand and to Sever Hall on the other...
...heard on every hand, it is only with the hope of explaining the reasons for these laments that we attack the subject. It is a matter of interest to all. Everybody has had some experience with the coy willfulness of those faucets and pipes. Everybody knows what a delight it is to linger shivering and half-frozen, waiting for a drop or two of warm water, and finally in despair to dash under the ice-cold stream in place of something more agreeable. And everybody knows that it is the proper thing to complain of the gymnasium officials. But everybody...
...fair, to every one's delight. When, at 2.15, both teams filed out upon the athletic field, a heavy northwest wind was blowing across it, and the ground was slippery; but there was no rain. New seats had been erected on the grounds, and all these, and the old ones were crowded with spectators. The audience was reckoned at 2500, of which a large part were ladies...
...carefully arranged, and presented a very organized appearance. The great variety of costumes, of transparencies, with their manifold jokes, the dazzling glare of torches, from which every now and then, a stream of fire shot into the clear, cold sky, must all have afforded a great deal of delight to the sleepy inhabitants of Cambridgeport and to those of our own venerable, old, hoary Cambridge. All the happiness and gayety culminated when on Holmes' field the messengers arose from earth to carry the news of Harvard's gladness up through the night air to the clear ether above. Last night...