Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Must it not be confessed that the system of college prizes is, on the whole, productive of bad results? It has little effect in stimulating the idle. It incites those who are already ambitious earnest workers to over-exertion. Success renders them conceited: failure often makes them bitter and discouraged. The whole system practically amounts to a lottery where the time staked instead of being regarded as a means of culture and future usefulness is considered as almost thrown away if the mercenary competitor fails to draw a prize...
...cannot agree with our correspondent of yesterday in his bitter denunciation of the base-ball management. The gentlemen who form that management are doing everything in their power to get the faculty to allow our nines to play against professionals, and if it does not seem best to them to start a petition, we should not find fault with them for that and denounce them as if they were employing no other means to obtain the desired result. They are the best judges. As a matter of fact, we have been assured by the management that they have been very...
...eighty-eight board has left the Advocate, and in leaving has launched forth a bitter criticism against the management of the CRIMSON. We have a great respect for the opinions of our sister paper, knowing that she always says what she means and says it well. But in this case she has been a little ungenerous-nay, unjust. If the gentleman who wrote that stinging editorial will turn to past files of the CRIMSON he will see that the paper has greatly improved typographically. Accidents will happen occasionally, of course; but the general appearance is superior to that of past...
...both sexes. Four different localities were consecrated to the Panhellenic games,' at which the athletes of all the Hellenic tribes met for trials of strength at intervals varying from six months to four years. The disgrace of being defeated in the presence of an assembled nation was as bitter as the honor of being crowned was great. Besides the drill-grounds and the public gymnasia-of which every town had one or two, and where the complete apparatus for all public sports was often combined with free baths and lecture halls-the larger cities had associations for the promotion...
...months, and may have given evidence of good, solid, manly qualities. In the majority of cases the man so snubbed will gradually, I think, rise above the contempt or condescension of his high-toned classmates, if he is a man of real worth; but think of the hard and bitter experience he must first go through, even if he possesses only the average amount of sensitiveness. I think the orator of the senior class dinner uttered a real truth when he spoke of the increase of class feeling in the senior year. But to have to fight up to that...