Word: beset
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ever filling our lives with temptations and doubts in order that we, by overcoming these forces, may make our souls heroic, and get an unshaken trust in the Almighty who rules over us. As long as we become stronger fighters for God we can rejoice in the temptations which beset...
...forms a part of a general attack upon Harvard life, especially its tendency to lay great stress upon athletic contests. Much as we deem the writer of the article egregiously ignorant about our affairs, there can be no doubt that Harvard is not exempt from the evils which always beset a large body of society-composed entirely of men, but that is no particular fault of ours. What can be laid at our door is a certain triviality in dealing with affairs, and a provinciality in regard to the outside world, but great as has been the misfortune occasioned...
...college income; while each department, each scientific school, the gymnasium, the library, get but part of what they need, and each is just able to pull through the year and not run in debt. This only means that the life of the school is grandly vigorous. Its various departments beset the sorely tried president and treasurer with the appetites of growing boys. But that appetite shows that the family resources are increasing, and that the college loaf will be big enough...
...Harvard to her rightful position in athletics by destroying the present vicious law of compensation." Dinners are times for joviality, and last Friday's banquet was no exception to that rule, but still there was hardly a speech that evening which did not turn upon the evils which had beset and were besetting Harvard life, and there was a spirit of earnestness and determination shown which, if transplanted into every class in college without losing any of its vim and courage, Yale could no longer be called "champion," and parents would no longer hesitate to send their sons to Harvard...
...sophomore literary society deserves consideration, but we are not prepared to say that it deserves anything more. The existence of an organization in the sophomore year which would be of a purely literary character might prove a great blessing in lessening the power of some of the evils which beset second-year students; but whether any such society could be put upon a foundation which would secure to it inviolably devotion to the principles which gave it birth, is a matter of extreme doubt. There is not in college today a literary organization until well into the junior year...