Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...necessary it may have seemed to him and to the coaches, can but add to the respect which is felt for him. An undergraduate seldom has a harder thing to do. Resignation before success, setting aside the chance so cagerly looked forward to, of making one more effort, is bitter. The college knows this, and it knows now better than ever before, what it owes to its e crew captain...
...third time in succession Harvard has lost in debate to Yale. The defeat is naturally a bitter disappointment, as Harvard this year enjoyed the advantage of choice of sides, while the unprecedented number of men who spoke in the trial provided more good material than usual from which to select the team...
This fall's lesson is, then, not a rebuff, bitter though its, disappointment has been. On the contrary, it should encourage perseverance. If we have the heart to stick to it, with dogged energy and conservatism, ultimate success is inevitable...
...absurd then to imagine that the result can be foretold, and it is worse than absurd to encourage any general expectation that Harvard will have the game in her hands. Whoever wins that game must fight it out to the bitter end, and any feeling of security is ill founded. Too much confidence tends too spoil the team. It also tends to produce a violent reaction against the method of coaching in case of defeat. Finally it gives outsiders and graduates an exaggerated idea of the team's ability, which calls down upon them perhaps unjust criticism if they...
...Youth,"- a new book by Alice Brown, Houghton, Mifflin and Co., publishers,- is, to say the least, interesting reading. It is a series of letters purporting to tell the story of a boy, who, isolated from the world during his youth, finds life a bitter disappointment. The story is well told, with a tender, though sad, picturing of nature and life. The author's conception of boy-life is at times a bit strained and unreal, but more often consistent and true to nature. The style is good throughout, and in places admirable. The author excels in word-painting, which...