Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...brought together at the beginning of its freshman year for organization. It is the first time that the class as a whole meets for anything like social purposes. Every man in a class has a certain extent of class feeling, he is loyal to his class teams and is proud of any credit that may come to the class. But yet there are very few who really know their class, know what kind of men belong to it, and know why they are proud of it. The junior dinner is the occasion when the member of the class begins...
...Icelandic Sagas differ from European literature both in their style and in the circumstances which prompted their composition. Iceland, during her development lived in peace. The Icelanders were proud of their traditions and thus old tales were preserved in their integrity. Consequently the Sagas impress the reader with a belief in their truthfulnes...
...great disappointment, though hardly a surprise to Harvard. The college had the utmost confidence in the captain and his men, and all eleven of them showed by their work that this confidence was not misplaced. Harvard made a most courageous and uphill fight. While all Harvard men are proud of the work of their team they agree very readily that there was no piece of good-luck which gave Yale the game, but simply superior play from start to finish...
...been pre-eminently successful. Her men entered college at a time of athletic depression and indifference. They especially have the ones to lead Harvard to a better state of things,-to victory. Yet it is not her victories alone in which Ninety-one may feel the most proud. It is in the broader athletic development to which her earnestness has led us; an earnestness which is the synonym for courage and truth...
...working teams which has ever been at Cambridge; that each man on the team has laid aside every personal feeling and has worked with marvelous earnestness; and that they have been led by a captain of whose indomitable energy and courage Harvard has had so many occasions to feel proud...