Word: pride
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...seems strange that it should be necessary to call the attention of the student body to an action so flagrantly opposed to the high ideas of honor on which Harvard men pride themselves as the misuse of books provided by the University libraries. We refer to the way in which some men, - their number we are sure is not large, - appropriate reserved books to their own uses with absolute disregard of the convenience of their fellow students. Perhaps this is too mild a criticism of a man who takes from the shelves a greater number of books than his immediate...
...game yesterday was not one in which Harvard could have pride, but it also was not one by which Harvard need feel disgraced. Yale was clearly stronger, but Harvard was not altogether weak...
...freer plane of activity on which alone true scholarship can be found. But in spite of all that had been accomplished at that time, and of all that was due to the well won reputation of individual professors,- to whom the faculty still look back with veneration and pride,- it is the period of the present administration that will be remembered hereafter as the epoch in which the University was first fairly able to take its place among the great seats of learning of the world, and to adopt as its foremost purpose, not simply the regulation of more...
...game with Brown last week, the spectators showed a disposition to cheer at the errors made by the visiting team. This is almost without precedent at Harvard. It has been a matter of pride among the students in former years that, no matter how the Harvard team was treated away from home, the teams which visited here should be received with the utmost courtesy...
...maintenance (1) of national pride, interest and traditions; and (2) of the respect of other nations...