Word: driven
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Howe were especially noticeable on our team, while Blaickloch, Low, Ross, Miller, and Scriver did the most for the Britannias. The umpires were Messrs. Houston for Harvard, and McGibbon and Esdaile for Montreal. In the evening our men were entertained in the Gymnasium, and on Sunday they were driven through the city and park...
...during the mid-years, and the night of the German. My heart was set on attending, but conscience would give me no peace, filling my thoughts with the next day's examinations. Hence there arose that time-honored wrangle 'twixt Duty and Inclination, in which Duty was driven from the field, for Miss Ravissante had firmly convinced me, in the irresistible logic of beauty and artful superlatives, that I was nothing less than indispensable to her enjoyment of the evening, and thus, you know, my going was really a deed of mercy...
...known that that fact was to be spread abroad. Hardly any one knew who were the unsuccessful candidates last year, for the publication of a list of all applicants is an innovation of the Advocate. Let us hope that, in future, that paper may not be driven to disregard the feelings of students for the sake of filling up its item column...
MIST.FOAM of the wind-waves, lightly driven...
...especially since the scores were so largely in our favor. Knowing that Harvard had the better nine, and feeling confident of victory even after two defeats, we are not inclined, after the manner of the Yale News, "to allow our brains to be turned wild or to be driven crazy with rapture"; victory has perched herself too frequently, under Captain Thayer's able leadership, upon our banners, to allow us to be more than ordinarily moved in regard to a matter which such excellent base-ball authority as the Clipper as well as ourselves regarded as a foregone conclusion...