Word: behind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college expected little from them, and turned out on the Common on May 15th with gloomy hearts. The day was unfavorable, but the crowds were enormous, packing every inch of the Beacon street wall behind the ropes. The blue uniforms of the Lowells, and the red of the Harvard's made a striking contrast on the field. The crowd favored the Lowells, hooting and cheering, and on one occasion holding a hit to centre field "until the striker and one man got home." Harvard was badly rattled during the first four innings. During the last five, however, they turned...
...very different nature is the last essay which deals with Macaulay's Writings. One or two inaccuracies there are, and, for instance, the statement that he left no great amount of literary work behind him. Did Sheridan leave more? All the essays, the poetry, the unfinished history, which I confess seems to me much of the partisan hackwork style of literature, make up a considerable bulk of remains - and then much of his work was in the form of speeches. For the rest, the essay seems to me good, especially as I agree thoroughly with the writer, and never more...
...confident; patriotic and courageous.' This Mr. Eliot has done, or striven to do, and as far as he has succeeded, we can rightly congratulate and praise him. Let him enjoy his vacation in the tranquility which accompanies the knowledge of labor well done, conscious that he has left behind him the foremost as well as the oldest American university. - Western Exchange...
...only by the very hardest work that we can hope for any degree of success whatever. Captain Willard we are sure will do all he can but he is laboring under great disadvantages, having so much raw material and being without the incentive of a victorious nine behind him. If the nine is to make a step toward regaining its lost position, it must have the hearty, whole-souled support of the college. The men are willing to do their part. Do not let them fail, because the college does not do her part...
...strange that professor and scholar with identical objects in view are personally so indifferent to each other. It reminds one of men who live on the closest business terms, but on the loosest social relations. It will be highly advantageous for all concerned, if our faculty come out from behind their desks, our students from behind their dictionaries, and each learns his man from a standpoint more social than printed text books...