Word: boasting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...editorial published in the Crimson on Thursday last, Harvard charges Princeton with everything which a reputable institution and foot ball team should be ashamed of, and winds up by making the following boast: "The writer points out that now is the time for decisive action if Harvard wishes to put the mark of her condemnation upon the tendencies toward professionalism which are fast gaining headway. If Harvard alone wishes to see athletics put on a higher plane, let her withdraw, although it seems hardly probable that she would be allowed to act alone in this matter. Whatever is the means...
...Bicycle club has gone to much trouble to arrange this meeting, the first of the kind in the history of our college athletics, and the field of entries is large. In the past year or two bicycling has developed to an astonishing extent at Harvard, and we can boast of several of the fastest riders in intercollegiate athletics. This afternoon the races will be close, and will be doubly interesting from the fact that our own men stand a good chance of winning a majority of the events...
...colleges can boast a prouder record or more eminent alumni than the old University of Virginia, founded by Thomas Jefferson, a fact which he thought worthy to be chronicled, in writing his own epitaph, beside the immortal fact of his having been the author of the Declaration of Independence. The fact that he was twice President of the United States Jefferson thought less worthy of record. Although prostrated by the war, the university has since that time received over $700,000 in legacies and gifts, exclusive of its fixed endowments. It has no President but its affairs are administered...
...event are pretty well assured. The class tug-of-war teams that have pulled against '88 must acknowledge that they have had worthy adversaries, and that fact ought to lessen the bitterness of defeat. With our congratulations go our best wishes for success at Mott Haven. Eighty-eight can boast that, in one thing at least, she has been unsurpassed...
...college spirit. The president speaks of the "trickery condoned by a public opinion which demands victory." This is certainly not a prevalent abuse; if it exists at all it is among a very small element in our college world. The spirit of fairness and honor, of which most colleges boast, would soon frown down any "trickery"; and, if that potent factor in a college world-public opinion-frowns upon "trickery," how can it exist? In spite of all this, however, we believe with President Eliot that there is much that is rotten in our athletic system, and we call upon...