Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Last Friday's issue of the Evening Post contains an admirable letter on the oft repeated cry for an American university of the English stamp. This premature call for something that is at present foreign to our nature is illustrative of the typical American. We are a pushing people, proud of our success and jealous of those who surpass us. The University is the effect, not the cause, of ambitions for trained scholarship. A desire to learn must come before institutions of learning can be successful. It is true there is a reaction exerted by the college upon the educational...
...Library was very great, and it may be truly said that this great progress was largely due to Mr. Sibley's devotion to the interests of the institution. Harvard certainly has every reason to be thankful to one who has helped her in attaining to what now is her proud boast, "the largest and best college library in the country...
...carbolic acid. In these duels it is impossible for anyone to be killed, for the combatants wear about the neck and body thick leather pads, and thick glasses before the eyes, so that the only place where they are cut is on the face. The students are very proud of these cuts, and in case they see that a scar will not be very noticeable, it is often a fact that they tear it open and pour wine into it. After a student has fought a certain fixed number of duels (some ten or twelve), he receives a band...
...made by Princeton; Yale held out to the last with an apparently inexcusable obstinacy. While Princeton sought to have the game contested under the fairest circumstances possible, Yale at least seemed to be striving to place her opponent at every possible disadvantage. In the disputes, Yale came out the proud victor, and should have credit for her perseverance and success; but in the game itself, Princeton is the victor, and her victory is all the more glorious because it was won against real odds. Who can deny that the first are often last, and the last first...
...requested. The '87-'88 game was twice postponed at the request of the respective captains. Why could not '86 have been as courteous? Was their standing as foot-ball players or gentlemen raised by saying that '87 could play with substitutes or forfeit the game? Were they proud of the fact that the captain of the '87 team could only be present as a spectator...