Word: strongly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...crew. The race, to be sure, afforded little excitement to the average looker-on, but no one who regarded the consequences of the race could have been indifferent when watching the finish. Not only is a victory won, but the disgrace of 1876 is wiped out. Yale had a strong crew, and one that no one need be ashamed of; and if anything can take away from the bitterness of Yale's defeat, it is the excellent time they made. New London amply vindicated its claim to be the best place for the regatta. The course is all that...
...Senior class at Exeter this year is a very strong one. Out of thirty-three members twenty-eight will come to Harvard...
...epithet "scurrilous," applied to the Yale News by one of its older contemporaries of the same place, seems, from the language of that paper with regard to our recent Freshman match with Yale, to be but little too strong. We are told "that there is no doubt that the bull-dozing policy pursued during the game affected the result," which is contradicted in the same sentence by the assertion that "no one. . . . can attribute the disastrous result to these causes." In the item column we are sarcastically told " the thanks of the College are due Harvard for the gentlemanly manner...
...believe, for the Professors in some of the departments to give but one hour to the instruction of the members of two different electives. We do not wish to question the wisdom of this method in the particular cases that we have in mind; there may be reasons strong enough to justify its adoption. On general principles, however, the system is not a good one. In the first place the student gets but half an hour of instruction, instead of the full hour, which, when he took the course, he had every reason to suppose he would receive. Then again...
...publisher of "Harvard and its Surroundings" has been so much encouraged by the merited success of his labors, that he has perhaps got to considering the book as a sort of official publication. At any rate, he has used the College Seal on all his advertisements. We have strong doubts whether he does so by permission of the Faculty; as even the respectable Advocate's request to be allowed its use was refused. But Mr. King is not the only offender, for an enterprising restaurateur in town has sent invitations to all the undergraduates, which read somewhat in this fashion...