Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Varsity, of the University of Toronto, says in its editorials, that "it is the glory of Canada and the United States that the people are proud of their colleges, and feel and acknowledge that a benign influence emanates from them." In this respect institutions of learning in the new world are contrasted with those in the old and of past ages, which must be called "self-contained and self-seeking," for they discourage, and therefore do not deserve public good-will and respect. Such institutions "care naught for the people, and the people care naught for them." But our American...
...after all as unanimous for early prayers as has been represented. We have been informed that quite as many are anxious for late as for early prayers, that the story of Yale's voting "with one voice" for early chapel is only a hoax. And so the proud claim of Yale that her students were superior to those at Harvard, a claim which at the bottom meant nothing more than that Yale was desperately determined to win some athletic victories, falls to the ground...
...account of their life there, written in a very pleasing style by the coxswain as a sort of journal, published at the request of the other members of the crew. '88 men will find it pleasant reading as it commemorates a class victory which they may be proud of. A few copies are still on sale at Sever...
...pleasant, and if a man happens to pass under one of these objects at the right moment he stands a good chance of receiving a sprinkling of naptha sufficient to perfume his hat and clothing for some time. It would seem as though our college would be too proud to use naptha lamps any way, for a little reflection will convince anyone that the town or corporation that uses these substitutes for real light, is on the downward path...
...true sense of the term, the only university in the west, so Harvard is certainly the university of the east, and by reason of its age and wealth, with the great advantages and opportunities thereby afforded, there is but little doubt that "Fair Harvard" can with justice claim the proud distinction of being the foremost university in America...