Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...another to maintain his position before his fellow students, and then with every man honestly doing his best, physically, mentally and pecuniarily for the common glory you will see Harvard leap to the front where she belongs, and our friends from Yale and Princeton will once again dread to meet the Crimson...
...have never heard other than two facts assigned as reasons for a boy to avoid Harvard-one by parents and the other by sons. Of the two, the dread of the supposed luxuries of Harvard life and the expenses incidental is a stronger factor against the college than the aversion of the young men themselves to a place where (by reputation) athletic contests are frowned upon and (by fact) athletic contestants are of inferior calibre. The parental prejudice is widespread, while the boys get their ideas only if they have attended the large boarding schools. Yet it is almost...
...principles and crew management. These three men, together with the outgoing captain and incoming captain, should have absolute control of Harvard boating interests-university crew and class crews. To this executive committee of five members the crews should look for their instructions. Captains would then be relieved of the dread of unpopularity if they made mistakes, and would not become heroes if successful. Coaching would be the same for each crew, and not the coat of many colors that it has been in the past few years...
...Cambridge, not only because we shall be free from study for a short time, but also because we shall perhaps go to the lands where the thermometer does not jump frantically from forty degrees below zero in six hours; where one can wake up in the morning without the dread of finding the ground covered with ten inches of snow which better experience has taught, will be as many inches of slush at night; where one can walk confidently from place to place on civilized walks, and not have to step gingerly along, expecting each moment to sink ankle deep...
...undergone a great transformation since the days of Eliot the First. A soft, closely cropped turf covered the broad field, and on either side were lofty grand stands, equalled in beauty of architecture only by the ancient amphitheatre of Pompey. Everything indicated that Harvard had recovered from that dread disease, impecunia...