Word: exult
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...even, seemed to be threatened. However, before taking any radical step Harvard wrote to Princeton to see if her decision was final. A few letters followed and the result of the correspondence is that Princeton has receded from the stand she first took. Far be it from us to exult in the position she now finds herself. What the causes were we do not pretend to say, but it is certain that Princeton was placed in an embarrassing position when she found herself called upon to make a final decision. The best course was clearly the hardest and most humiliating...
Alas! there is no "exult" in mine. The course of our rowing men for five years has been a sad one. The races could but result as they have. This fact is self-evident to any man with eyes, and why it has not been apparent to our crews is the inquiry on the lips of every graduate All this has filled me with disgust. This disgust is so intense that it rather amuses me to have a letter of mine on the subject misunderstood. I fancied that I felt so strongly that I could write what I felt...
...have erred let me say, before I submit any "views," that there is no excuse for our defeats. Explanation there may be, but it is not to our credit. My object in quoting the record, "H. 18, Y. 12. was not to "exult," but to shame the men into a realization that we are not wont to take second place, and ought not to be forced to take it through crass stupidity...