Word: boast
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...requisite for passing. They reason that they are gaining no false glory, and are depriving no one of deserved prizes, by a few tricks which are regarded as shrewd rather than dishonest. They take no pains to conceal their method of gaining forty or fifty per cent., and even boast among their companions, of the cunning way in which they hood-winked the proctor...
Bowdoin can boast of two championships won, in base-ball and in rowing...
...many years it has been Harvard's boast that she was free from hazing and rushes, but now to the disgrace of '88 and '89, the former especially, this good record of former years has been broken. We feel that we but voice the sentiment of the majority of Harvard men when we say that the performance of last night was small, contemptible, boyish and un-Harvard like in the extreme, and deserves the censure of the earnest men of all classes...
...necessary. Every Harvard man should recognize what is unquestionably true, that no society of the university has been more useful and beneficial to Harvard students than the Co-operative Society, and that therefore no society so much as it deserves the hearty co-operation of all who boast themselves Harvard men. Prices in Cambridge are high enough to-day to satisfy those most prone to expenditure; but they are by no means so high as they were several years ago, before the Co-operative Society was formed. Indeed, to this society Harvard men are now owing an economy in college...
...Yale once more claims the college championship in rowing. How absurd this is. We should think that a college that can boast of so many real achievements would disdain to stoop to claiming what they have no right to. Yale rows but one race, and refuses all other challenges, and then claims the championship of all the colleges. If any college has a right to such claim, it is the University, for we have by far the best record of any. but we make no such claim...