Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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From now until Lent, the party season will continue, uninterrupted by any stifled dread of examinations...
...good friends in danger of substituting for manly indifference to mere bodily ills, and an indomitable courage against all odds, a cowardly dread of all hurts? Do we not see that that is the case in the growing popularity of the safe but effeminate lawn tennis, and the substitution of artificial gymnastics for the healthier field sports of our transatlantic ancestors? The long line of puny, pale-faced, pimply youth to be seen to day in our midst must be protected; they must be put back in the nursery where big boys cannot bruise their sickly frames. How refreshing...
There was rather a lively exhibition of ball playing on Holmes' field, yesterday, when Dr. Pope was in the pitcher's box. It was an off day for the doctor, as will be seen by the score, and had that gentleman been at his best we dread to prophesy what the result might have been. It was also rather an off day for the rest of the doctor's nine who failed to support him with their accustomed accuracy. Martin, however, played well. Their batting was better. The doctor led the nine, making a fine base hit in the seventh...
...blanks which are sent to you are somewhat less formidable than those that have been used by preceding secretaries,? the diminution in size will be rewarded by a corresponding diminution in that strange dread which the mention of a class life seems to throw upon the average Harvard senior. They may be deposited at my room, 32 Matthews, or given to me at any time, and it will be a great favor to receive them at your earliest convenience...
...anticipation of the coming inroads of the workmen who are to build the new Physical Laboratory. The senior reminds himself with a melancholy satisfaction that the last term of his college course has begun. The joy of the under-classmen, at the presence of spring, is only tempered by dread of the approaching annuals...