Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...knew him were strongly attracted toward him, and his untimely end is felt as a personal loss; and the class desires to pay honor to his many noble qualities, to mark them as examples of manly virtue, and to tender its heartfelt sympathy to his parents in this their bitter hour...
...treasury. From this showing many will conclude that it is truly "the day of small things" with the league, and such is undoubtedly the case. But when we remember that it is still young in years and that it was founded in the midst of bitter opposition in a university where moderate drinking is very prevalent, and of whose large faculty the name of but one member, all honor to him for it, is to be found on the roll, we have no reason to be discouraged with the year's work. Since all that the society requires...
...furnished the basis of those charges have been obliged to withdraw their statements, made, as they declare, through a mistaken idea of the circumstances. It seems almost impossible to believe that the entire body of Princeton students were so carried away by their imaginations as to formulate such bitter charges with absolutely no groundwork of fact. The whole incident is much to be regretted...
...declaring that unless within sixty days her challenges are accepted she will claim the championship of America. By all means let her claim it if it will bring her any satisfaction, but if she expects that 'public opinion' will support her claim we fear she is doomed to bitter disappointment...
...Charles Lever, the novelist. He sat in it when he wrote "Charles O'Malley" and others of his stirring novels. It is now the property of the college and has held since his time many other famous men. Previous to 1869, when the "Church Act," which has caused much bitter feeling on the part of the Irish, was passed, the revenues of Trinity college amounted $450,000; since then they have been much impaired...