Word: gloating
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...known that if victory over Princeton and Yale crowns our standards, we will troop upon the field and indulge in a good, old-fashioned gloat. And if, on the other hand, confusion on our banners wait, we sincerely hope and confidently expect that our conquerors will themselves provide the accustomed spectacle...
...Primrose and West are always accepted with that degree of faith which means crowded houses everywhere. The combination of white and colored talent as arranged by primrose and West was made with a view of presenting minstrelsy from its birth to the present day, and old timers who gloat over the good old days of yore when minstrels were minstrels will have an opportunity to draw comparisons besides being allowed the privilege of enjoying two excellent performances for one price...
...Gloat in her white embraces...
SURELY Harvard would nowadays lift up its aristocratic hands in holy horror at the idea of such a thing as a lottery. It may, however, be interesting to those whose eyes gloat fondly on the announcement of bequests and donations to their Alma Mater, to see what measures were taken to raise money at a time when the College finances were not by any means in their present prosperous condition...
...that has graced the college papers, as F. G. does of the "Religion of the Mound-Builders," would probably find his sense of humor gratified by a table of logarithms, while there are others whose chief delight is to build a tower of moral rectitude whence they may alternately gloat over their own superiority and lament the vulgarity of the crowd. As I said, tastes differ, and it is well that each should have its representative, but when one sets up bounds outside of which a college student is supposed not to know enough to write, and not to care...