Word: fain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tied down by a multitude of school-boy rules. If we are not mistaken the same board of overseers tried to re-establish, early this fall, a form of compulsory attendance at prayers, but the indignation raised was so strong that the overseers hastily withdrew their resolutions and were fain to remain quiet for a while...
...published in our last issue a notice of the '87 class dinner. The classes at Harvard are now divided into so many groups, each little group thinking its own thoughts, having its own assemblings, and giving its own dinners, that we would fain forget that larger bond, the class, that binds them all together. In just such manner does the bond of our alma mater become indistinct in our eyes. But when college days are past, the difference is at once felt! How valuable all reunions, of college or class, then become to us; they speak to us like voices...
...friends of "Fair Harvard" - all manly and honorable men amongst the undergraduates - and such one is fain to believe form the great majority, must rejoice at the high tone which has characterized the much greater part of the communications which have appeared in the columns of the CRIMSON during the recent discussion of "cribbing." One late writer indeed seems to be of opinion that not a few men who are recognized as manly and honorable in their principles and conduct in all other matters, yet regard this as a venial one, not to be judged and condemned by the same...
...Majesty Myself," in the Boston Post says "it was Mr. Boucicault who told Oscar Wilde how to treat the 'bold, bad men' of Harvard, who would fain have broke up the poet's lecture, and for which exploit Oscar has been so much applauded...
...judge from the undergraduates present, it would appear that Mr. Perry's lectures are as little popular as his instruction in themes. As a lecturer he is by no means good. His delivery was so poor, his voice so weak, that those in the back of the room would fain have had telephonic communication with the desk. As near as could be gathered his lecture was taken up with a review of Addison, the author's mode of criticism as shown in the "Spectator," an attempt to trace its effects in the German school. Part of the lecture was occupied...