Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Tribune); "all that can be said of the arrangements by the executive committee can be summed up in one word, - perfection" (Star); "it will be long remembered by the inhabitants of Newark as one of the grandest events in her history" (Turf, Field, and Farm); "taking the opinion of veteran oarsmen who have attended every prominent regatta in the country for five years past, we may confidently declare this the most successful in every respect ever known in America" (Newark Daily Advertiser...
...sure, the student will lose the soothing privilege of a grumble at thirty-three per cent in a prescribed study, nor can the ingenious Junior, a veteran at his trade, complain or explain, should next August discover to him an average of forty-nine and ninety-nine hundredths per centum. But these drawbacks are quite outbalanced by the many evident advantages to be derived from the machine...
...instead of merely an agglomeration of oarsmen. Cornell wraps her as yet unselected men in the glory of her history, and claims that they will be worthy successors to the winners of 1875 and 1876, while Harvard proudly points to the record and experience and actual ability of her veteran crew. This difference of opinion can be settled in one way, and in one way only, - by a race...
...should make good his error by going next year, were the challenge accepted. Mr. Crocker, too, spoke strongly of the necessity of a good coach, and there was no one in whom the crew relied as much as in Mr. Watson. Mr. Watson replied that we now had a veteran crew, who had a year before them to prepare for a race, whereas the crew of '69 did not begin training until the spring, as they had not expected to row in England; therefore he thought we had a much better chance of beating than we had then, and that...
...proposition to open the library of Brown University at Providence, R. I., on Sundays, has met with stout opposition from Mr. Reuben A. Guild, the college's veteran librarian, who says that such a proceeding would "shock the moral sense of many of the friends and patrons of Brown University, and do more harm than good to the students...