Word: boast
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Heidelberg go by unscathed and all but tore the buildings down, yet in 1803 they were restored by the Arch duke Charles Frederick, as renowned as a lover of learning as a warrior. With the university's decided tendency toward a large faculty, three years ago it could boast of thirty-eight ordinary and twenty-six extraordinary professors, with numerous instructors. While the standard of education at Heidelberg is not so high as at some German universities, yet it has always been a favorite college among students, especially foreigners, and the attendance varies from five hundred in summer to eight...
There can be no doubt but that Yale at present has the two best halfbacks in the intercollegiate association. [Yale News. We have halfbacks to, but we don't boast. [Princetonian...
...time have been treated as below notice, are now gravely considered by responsible and influential scholars, shows the advance that has been made in public opinion within the last twenty years. 'The old order changeth, giving place to the new,' and it has always been the glory and the boast of Harvard that she keeps abreast of the popular current. Yet even Harvard may well pause and reflect before she breaks away so entirely from the old moorings, before she gives the sanction of her great example to measures so revolutionary...
...felt to be hindered by the world. At this stage men tend to become either sentimental or defiant; that is, either the disappointed man retires into himself to find in his own emotional culture what the world refuses to let him find elsewhere, or else one makes a boast of his independence for its own sake, and regards his life as a continual warfare against the wicked world that tries to crush him. The sentimental man is a subjective poet, or an aesthete, or a mystic...
Yale is perfectly happy because her papers can now boast that, "There are three dog-carts owned in college...