Word: envious
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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When we come to the Harvard Monthly it makes us envious to see one article in each issue signed by some noted name, and we feel like amending the clause in our constitution which limits our contributions to undergraduates. Yet on mature thought we doubt if this would be advantageous. We believe a college publication should be distinctly an exponent of work done by the students of that institution.- Williams Literary Monthly...
...farewell address of the editors, in which they complained that the cause of the failure of the magazine was due to jealousy and envy, "in a place too, where the bad passions should never come, in the sacred groves of Academus, where we have witnessed the emotions of an envious spirit, which has shown itself an unnatural foe to its literary seniours...
...much except in the library. The instructors are every year requiring more library work; every year students learn at an earlier period of their college course how to make use of the library, and to accept the great advantages it offers. Under such circumstances we cannot but feel very envious when we read that the library of Columbia College is to be open evenings and lighted by electricity. When we consider that the great bulk of the work here is done in the evening, and that any influence tending to keep men from spending their afternoons in open air exercise...
...very much afraid that we went home coveting the good things of our neighbors. As we stood in Memorial Hall, and looked up at the lofty walls hung with portraits of illustrious men, and lighted by beautiful stained-glass windows, we grew decidedly envious. Why should not girls have their senses educated by being surrounded with beauty during their years of study? To be sure, Lasell is not bare and dreary, like the conventional boarding-school, and many "things of beauty" are taking their place in our halls, but we need a great deal more than we have. Beautiful things...
...disclaim for their paper any tinge of college tone or influence. Without discussing whether or not such an influence would be after all so terrible a thing as it is painted, we must express our surprise that its editors select and reprint as an advertisement of their paper an envious fling at the Lampoon and at "Boston superciliousness," taken from the New York Critic. "In view of its success," cries the Critic, "there is something highly comic [sic] in the assertion of certain Boston papers that it is a continuation of the Harvard Lampoon. It owes less to the Lampoon...