Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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During the two or three years before his entrance to college, it is true, the boy feels some dim forebodings of trouble ahead; but a decisive step to meet it is seldom taken. Human nature is weak, and the issue is generally avoided, while the anxious son consoles himself with the thought that years may bring wisdom to the dear parents...
...freshmen will use the '82 'varsity shell. A. P. Butler is now stroking the second crew, which is doing fairly well. Altogether, the crew is working well and faithfully; the men are steady and reliable, train well, and will do everything in their power to bring Harvard out ahead of Columbia next June...
Yale has taken a stride ahead, and abolished the Greek and Latin salutatories. All well done. The practice has only antiquity to recommend it. And it is probable that not only not one in one thousand of those who have listened to the salutations this commencement season could intelligently follow the speakers, but that could an old-time Attic Greek, or a Ciceronian Roman listen to the modern 'commencement' orations in the original tongues, he would be beside himself with a laughter at the queer jumble. Doubtless the average senior Latin or Greek oration bears pretty much such a resemblance...
...editorial in the New Haven Register spoke of Harvard's feeling proud of being ahead of Yale in one thing at least, namely, having more Smiths in college than Yale...
...displayed. The majority wore the blue, not so much for male reasons as because it was more becoming and easier to get. Harvard also is a great favorite with the girls, but not so many of them have waltzed with a real Harvard student, and Yale and Princeton are ahead. West Point, though, is away up in front. No civilian, no matter how darling his mustache and wavy its silken ends, can compare with the roughly shaved cadet; the bell button, with its imaginative tinkling and figurative heart shape, outweighs...