Word: chagrin
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...struggle that is never decided. Every winter the long process of training is undergone cheerfully and perseveringly, and every spring and fall the representative teams meet to add one more victory or defeat to the records. Yet, notwithstanding the intense rivalry, the jubilation that follows victory and the deep chagrin that follows defeat, the relations between Harvard and Yale continue always cordial. There is behind the firm resolution to win, a feeling of mutual respect and hearty admiration that we think could hardly exist were not the colleges drawn together as they now are. The athletic life which every-where...
...disappointment throughout the college at the result of Saturday's baseball game with Yale can be judged by the enthusiasm and delight with which the false runior of a Harvard victory was received here. But, disappointed as every one was at the result of the game, the chagrin felt by all Harvard men who saw it, at the wretched showing of our representatives, was doubly bitter. There was a general feeling of confidence in the nine that even if they should be beaten they would give a good account of themselves both in the field...
...more prevalent than it is now, and that is saying a good deal. One of the most remarkable customs of the early days of the college was that of arranging men in class according to social position. This must have occasioned many worthy but poor students considerable mortification and chagrin. A writer on the subject says: "The scholars were often enraged beyond bounds for their disappointment in their place; and it was some time before a class could settle down to an acquiescence in this allotment. The higher parts of the class commonly had the best chambers assigned to them...
...prominent member of '89 received a letter from a legal firm in Boston bidding him call at once and avoid trouble. He hurried in town in great trepidation and found to his delight and chagrin that there was no firm of the name in Boston...
...Yale man, that games with them fail to be as interesting as those with more formidable rivals, even when they beat us, as Dartmouth did recently, the event is looked at in its bearing upon our winning the championship, and not at all with that feeling of chagrin which must always accompany our defeat at the hands of more prominent opponents." All of which we think will apply equally well to Harvard's case...