Word: cherished
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will still remember the game at Yale. Although unable to declare victory assured, we can prophecy an earnest effort on the part of the wearers of the crimson to add another victory at New Haven to the list. We wish every success to the nine, and cherish the highest hopes for a repetition of the old refrain, "'Steen to four...
...class of '86 at Harvard had a class supper followed by songs and speeches, last Friday evening. This seems to be the only way at Harvard to manifest and cherish class spirit. [Yale News...
...view of the little demand for such instruction in this country, and of the difficulty of finding a worthy successor to the chair, we suppose that its abandonment can not but be considered wise. Still we cannot but cherish the hope that this abandonment is but a temporary one. A university which claims to hold the highest place among the educational institutions of the country as does Harvard, is the one university to which students in special branches must look for instruction. At present the demand for this instruction is but slight, but that it is increasing is shown...
Mayor Fox, in his fourth annual address to the City Council, speak of Harvard University as follows: "By one of the provisions of the constitution of our Commonwealth it is made 'the duty of magistrates to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences and all seminaries of them; especially the university at Cambridge and the public schools.' Such a requirement of the constitution comes with peculiar force upon the chief magistrate of the city in which Harvard University is located, I am able to say that during my several terms of office it has been my pleasure, as well...
...habits, was a veritable type of the antique. Gray and hirsute, his dark complexion and piercing eyes gave him a weird aspect, and he passed his days and nights in one corner of a college dormitory in lone communion with the spiders which he was wont to feed and cherish, and the tomes in which the lore of old Hellas was entombed, many of whose graces and beauties were visible to no eye within the academic shades as they were to his. Reserved and uncommunicative as a recluse, he had a few chosen friends with whom he loved to talk...