Word: boasts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard HERALD speaks of "one instructor in college" who makes it a public boast that he reads no newspapers. That would be shameful if it were a fact, but I question it. No man who can read, and is in the possession of his senses, could so shut himself out of the world, unless he went off and lived as a hermit beyond the boundaries of civilization. The instructor may say, and possibly even think, that he does not read the newspapers, but you could corner him on cross-examination. It is a silly boast, and especially silly when coming...
...correct an estimate of their strength. In the newspaper reports of their games they are careful to allow few complimentary remarks to steal in. Yet all this while they are working as they never worked before; they are straining every fibre of strength that the college can boast, and when the great contest with Yale comes, their powers will be unmasked, but not till then...
Harvard University has one building which is in a peculiar degree its pride and boast. It was erected at an expense of many thousands of dollars, gladly subscribed by the alumni of the university. It was erected with a purpose - it was intended for a memorial, and it has attained world-wide fame under the name of "Memorial Hall." Yesterday was Memorial Day. The hall and the day are memorials of the dead soldiers of the civil war. One represents the recognition the graduates of a university gave to their brave classmates, to the sons of the same Alma Mater...
...boating men are doing their best. Princeton has so few advantages to boast, and so many disadvantages, that it has always been a matter of doubt in the minds of some whether or not it is best to go to so much expense for an object which is likely to yield us but small returns. With no water but a crooked canal, half a mile from the college grounds, it does at first sight seem foolish, and yet those who profess to know, declare that even these are by no means insuperable difficulties, and have assured us that each successive...
...some of the ill-spleened railers who love to carp at Harvard morals, some of those nice, good people who boast of having educated themselves, and never realize that they had a very poor teacher, if some of these would some time attend the college church services and observe the rapt attention with which Wendell Phillips and his colleagues are listened to, they would pause for a moment before trying to convince the world that college students are embryo Mephistopheles, and very minions of the lord of Hades let loose upon a lamb-like public, and going about seeking whom...