Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...editorial in the New Haven Register spoke of Harvard's feeling proud of being ahead of Yale in one thing at least, namely, having more Smiths in college than Yale...
Everyone remembers the reply Polonius makes to Hamlet, who asked him if he did not at one time act in the University. Polonius not only admits it but is rather proud of it. "I did enact Julius Caesar, I was killed i' the capital." It is recorded that Queen Elizabeth attended amateur performances of the students at Oxford and at Cambridge, and was highly pleased with the endeavors of the striplings. At that time it was the custom, when any distinguished personage paid a visit to the Universities, to entertain him in royal style, and the representation of some...
...gives evidence of the scholarship to be expected of a Harvard professor, but of originality of invention and rarefelicity in modulation and instrumentation, especially in the second movement, which with its broad flowing melody and really exquisite orchestral coloring, is a thing that any contemporary European composer might be proud...
...making Yale freshmen have found an excuse which the whole world will be only too ready to acknowledge perfectly just and fair. And yet we cannot but wonder at the apparent disappearance of Yale enthusiasm. "Where," will be asked, "is that interest in athletics of which Yale is so proud?" Why was there any doubt as to the gate receipts? Can Harvard indifference have found a foothold at New Haven...
...cold seat in the night air with their one remaining plug, he desires shall be told in full. But with what justice can we relate the brave deeds of one freshman without relating the deeds of all, and that indeed, were too much to ask. '87 is not proud, but truthful, and it rests satisfied with the work of its single chronicler. To properly satisfy '88 would take a book as long as the Iliad, and to write one now in the midst of football and forensics, theatres and dinners, lectures and recitations, is asking too much; '88 must wait...