Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ball managers will be read by students this morning. We had strong hopes of once more meeting our old antagonists upon the field, of contending again for the prize which has for so long a time been beyond our grasp. But to disappointment we are doomed, and upon our fond hopes and expectations a wet blanket has been thrown. Let not, however, all this enthusiasm of the past few days be in vain. In order that next year we may be able to cope with our rivals, foot-ball must not be allowed to stagnate this fall. Let the class...
...soon had a tiff with his mistress. Their reconciliation he describes as follows: "I held her dear hand; her eyes were full of passion; I took her in my arms; I told her what made me miserable; she was pleased to find it was no worse. We renewed our fondness." Supporting somebody else's wife, however, was expensive-it looked "too much like licentiousness," Boswell complained, and growing tired of her, his conscience began to trouble him. "How strangely do we color our own vices." he writes in horror, "I startle when you talk of keeping another man's wife...
...rumor that there would be no morning prayers during the semis has been going the rounds. It must have come from a man with a very imaginative mind, fond of building castles...
...because he was not fit for anything else." Even from his boyhood he was an industrious reader of standard authors. and previous to his entering college his favorite books were Addison's Spectator, Butler's Hudibras, and Pope's trans. of Homer, and Essay on Man. He was particularly fond of Shakespeare's plays and Don Quixote. In addition to the Latin classics he studies with interest Demosthenes and a few other Greek writers...
...those gentlemen may as well take Harvard as she is, or go to Yale. Next come those who think foot ball all right as it is, or think the convention would have made whatever improvement can and need be made. These are few in number, and are not very fond of supporting their views with sound arguments. Then comes a large proportion of the students, who agree very nearly with the Athletic Committee; the only point of difference being in most cases that the students wish another attempt made in the foot ball convention, in which Harvard shall say, "These...