Word: delight
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...blemish, however, and so the festival will be marked by no unseemly exhibitions on the college green. Apart from the regular graduating exercises, commencement day has always been devoted to the renewal of the relations of classmates with an institution dear to all their hearts and which they all delight to honor. Clergymen, doctors, lawyers, merchants, students, and men in all the higher walks of life, meet on commencement day to welcome each other with friendly courtesy. The several classes, having met together, listen to reports of what has transpired relating to any of their number. Songs are sung...
...bosoms swell with grateful pride? On such occasions as the recent inter-collegiate meeting in New York, therefore, it should be our first effort to act so as to gain the approbation of the omniscient scribes who report for these journals. It is with feelings of the deepest delight that we notice that in one respect that meeting was an improvement over previous ones. "The spectators," we are informed by the Spirit of the Times, "were not so offensively and boisterously enthusiastic as in former years, and the din of college yells was less deafening than usual." This is truly...
Moreover, lawn tennis may be watched with delight and interest, even by those whose intellects are below - or above - mastering such elementary propositions as these. The skill of the player may be appreciated by people who have not a conception what is the score; and the neatness with which a ball is "placed," or the rapidity with which it is "volleyed," need not be missed because the spectator is utterly at sea as to which side of the net is getting the best of it. - [London Standard...
...Yale News seems to take great delight in clipping the Acta's definitions of the various college men. To complete the series we clip the definition of the Yale man. taken from the same source, which the News, strange to say, has as yet failed to clip...
...editorial to a young freshman whose first effort in debate was such a success that it was considered a matter of general interest. The poetry of the Magazine is of a decidedly superior tone. An excellent parody of Chaucer runs through several numbers. The Oxford poet, however, seems to delight as much in French forms as his American brother...