Word: pride
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...public an acknowledgment of the worth of that plan, and while others gave with a liberal hand, his own gift, his time and genius, was the one without which the Museum would never have been built. He lived to see his wishes consummated and to feel a just pride in knowing that no place could be found in Europe which afforded better facilities for gaining a knowledge of the animal kingdom than the institution of which he was the founder. Here he had brought together an able and a large corps of coworkers, who carried into the prosecution of their...
...none the less instructive. Within a radius of a few miles from the College there is abundant material to engage for a long time the earnest attention of the antiquarian, and subjects, too, in which every one interested in the history of his own country should take a just pride. Yet the number who acquaint themselves with these things by observation as well as reading is small. Every year many students, to spend their long vacation, hurry off to Europe, are dazzled and delighted by the brilliancy of its splendid capitals, and come back with bad French and worse German...
...Pride of the Northern land...
...waved our hats in joy and pride...
...trying; for the main requisite is to have something to say, and surely among so large a number it cannot be but there are ideas and information for which the college at large would be the better. The success of the college press should be a matter of pride, not to any class, but to the college; and the motto of which the observance would do more for us in the future than any other is, "College, not Class...