Word: begged
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Harvard's leading boating-men should, then, be directed to the manner of rowing, or to what the English call "form." Much has been said and written about the famous "Harvard stroke." I do not hesitate to brand such trash with the name of buncombe, and I earnestly beg Harvard's aquatic chiefs not to be beguiled by like nonsense. There is but one good way to row; all others are bad. Why did Oxford beat Harvard? Because she was stronger? Not a bit of it. Calm and unprejudiced critics have never held but one opinion, namely, because she rowed...
...have already done several things of which you are ashamed. All right. Don't do any more; and if you can control yourself in the future you will have obtained experience that will be valuable to you as a man of the world. I have nothing left but to beg a thousand pardons for this long sermon from
SEEING in the daily papers a notice of a meeting held for the purpose of generating a new rowing association, I beg leave to offer through your columns, to the gentlemen interested in that enterprise, the following suggestions...
...Record has gladdened our soul. It announces that the policy by which it has been governed from its birth is to be renounced. After heaping abuse upon that "scurrilous sheet," the New York Sun, it actually declares: "We beg the pardon of our readers for anything which may seem like Billingsgate in this article." It then adds: "We shall endeavor to keep our columns free from that offence in future. The issue of May 3 is remarkable in many respects, but nothing has startled us more than the editorial which begins: "It is the boast of all Yale men, that...
...means in our power, and set an example to those colleges that are yet struggling in outer darkness. If Yale men regard us as a trifle snobbish, a shade supercilious, a jot too conscientious, a tittle quixotic, and ever so little conscious of our own superiority, - let us beg them to bear with us. Although our language be strangely fastidious, - our personal appearance impertinently neat, we do not, surely, mean to be insulting; and it is not without reason that we are encouraged to hope that our Yale friends will endeavor to improve us by kindly pointing out our faults...