Word: grimly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Reserved and uncommunicative as a recluse, he had a few chosen friends with whom he loved to talk of his favorite studies. About the college grounds he moved shyly, as if trying to avoid recognition or the necessity of recognizing others. In the class-room he was somewhat grim, and chary of the lore at his command. He was rather an instructor of scholars than of students, and his vast erudition showed itself in his grammars and lexicons more than in the conduct of recitations, which with him was rather formal and unfruitful, though his occasional lectures were rich with...
Princeton plays Yale next Saturday, and if grim determination to win can bring our late rivals success Yale, will have to look close for their laurels...
There is something really amusing in the grim vigor with which all the publications of that great college, which cannot for the life of it support an illustrated paper of its own, slash at the productions of more ambitious colleges. We have all given up hoping that Yale will ever evolve out of its conservatism sufficient enterprise to put a rival in the field for the Lampoon or The Tiger. It has evidently given up all hope, itself, since the News recovered from those weekly gasps after the (to Yale) Unattainable, which appeared in its supplement last year...
Sombre and grim...
Wast't in teeming brain of grim Astrologer...