Word: fondness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...this season of the year, when the undergraduate comes from home laden with the gifts of his fond parents and doting aunts, when tobaccopouches and match-boxes fill his trunks, it is strange that Memorial Hall should be used for lighting friction-matches...
Princeton.- The Senior class is too fond of cutting Chapel...
...apparent to everybody; but his mother is continually prating about her dear boy's love of study. Harry is a bon-vivant at Harvard; he is continually giving dinners; he has a little box at the Globe, and a big bill at Ober's; but you shall hear the fond mother say, "Poor Harry is applying himself too much; he has come home quite pale, and we are afraid of a brain-fever...
Term-bills did not meet with prompt payment on all occasions; the money forwarded by the fond parent "was often spent on wine parties, gambling, or immoralities still worse, and in defiance of the law," and as the Athenians had not discovered the device of requiring a bond, the bursars of those days threatened in vain...
THOSE persons who are fond of tracing manners and customs back into the remote past will rejoice in the material afforded them by Mr. Capes's little book entitled "University Life in Ancient Athens," in which it is shown that many of the student customs of to-day were in vogue at east fifteen hundred years...