Word: beare
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...good as the next man and a good deal better, and though as poeta nascitur, etc., a man can't make himself a gentleman, he can become the pinchbeck imitation thereof, and if he cannot attract notice in one way he can in another. No one would bear any ill-will to a man who snorted in chapel through ignorance, but if he continued to disgust a crowd of men because he thought it funny, he would be in a very different position. Nor is a young man's failure to make a good speech at a public dinner...
...color before Harvard; and, even if that be the case, we see no reason why the color should be resigned by us. Union claims to have adopted the magenta in 1860, although no testimony to this effect is brought forward; and it is asserted that Harvard did not bear the magenta before 1871. This last statement is false. The magenta was recognized as Harvard's color early in the last decade. We have not yet been able to find out the exact date ; but in the race with Oxford, magenta was worn by Harvard as her established color. The first...
This wealth of sound I bear with...
...Boston Advertiser has taken to copying poetry from the Yale papers. O tempora, O mores. If all the poetry is as good as that copied we can bear...
...acquirements to our friends and fellows. We choose a Chaplain to express our sentiments and freshness of heart. A wrong selection (as has once or twice occurred) does not dishonor the office, but the class. He stands as their prayer to heaven, - if it be a curse, they must bear it; if a blessing, they must receive it. And though he should speak but the thought of one or two beside himself in his class, let us have him, for he is the title-page to our book of life, the Nunc Demitis to our college days...