Word: fondness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Thrilled with fond imagination...
...prominence which is given to them on set occasions. The boat-house and the ball-field lie outside of our daily course, and if not reminded of them we are apt to forget their existence. But books are in our hands every day, and by daily use we grow fond of them. The love of learning is of slow growth, the result of constant mental improvement, and cannot be hurried by artificial stimulants...
...student, on leaving College, remembers the Memorial Hall as the place where some of his most enduring college friendships were formed and fostered; if he connects it in his mind with four years of genial intercourse around a social board, our patriot alumni are more truly honored in the fond memory of every graduate, than when their names are graven on marble tablets, in letters of lasting gold...
...very small in comparison with Christ's, there being but fifty scholars on the foundation, yet the proportion of celebrated men is very large, - Addison, "loose Dick Steele," Thurlwall, Grote, Sir John Leech, and Thackeray standing high in the list of graduates. The last-named, Thackeray, was always very fond of his old school, and just before his death went on Founder's Day to scatter pennies among the boys...
...that they may adequately grapple with the difficulties before them, and show themselves in all respects to be "exalted models, both able and willing to prove what it truly is to constitute a state." That from some source men well qualified for this purpose will come is the fond belief of Americans and the hope of every Utopian dreamer. "Blessed indeed will be the alma mater who shall be able to cry out, 'These are my sons!' Sad will be her reproach if she should find them emanate from any inferior source...