Word: gloriously
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...might mark such an occasion in any of the effete despotisms of a foreign civilization, was yesterday heroically dispensed with at Harvard. With tense brows and studious, downcast look. professors and students could be seen pacing the gravel-strewn walks of the yard, intent no doubt in recalling the glorious deeds of the father of his country, first in peace, first in war, and first in the hearts of his countrymen. How much better is such an observance of the day than the maddening pomp and wild holiday uproar that some thoughtless ones unseemly clamor...
...Columbia! that you should have come to this. Not content with your experience of last year, your glorious (?) victory of two years ago, you must extort this resolution from our willing faculty, ready to yield anything to any college, however unimportant, that had the hardihood to ask. The authority of dozens of races, won in the last mile, of hosts of crew men, who have rowed in four-mile races and are still "alive," is as nothing beside the desire to propitiate everybody. Princeton and Columbia, according to common report, have succeeded in gaining concessions from Harvard. We should like...
...Legendre, represented by a wooden skeleton, attired only in a red flannel shirt, was ignominiously hauled to his doom in a brick cart, in which rode his executioners. After him marched the triumphant sophomores in a band fifty strong, bearing torches and Roman candles, and thus making their pathway glorious. After the conquerors marched the invited guests from the other classes of Columbia, presenting an imposing appearance in their long white gowns and high hats, as if they were householders fleeing from a burning city in their night dresses...
...Hawes will read the second third of the "Miles Glorious," in Sever 11, at 7.30 this evening...
...entertainment given last evening by the Pi Eta Society was excellent in every respect. Mr. Belshaw, who played the title role in both comedy and farce, was inimitable, and showed a wonderful diversity of talent in portraying first the good-natured but vain-glorious Papa Perrichon, and then the rollicking Irish boy, who manages to get into mischief every minute, and to get out again immediately after, by use of his mother-wit. Messrs. Lord and Jack played the parts of the two rival suitors with excellent taste. The female roles were taken by Messrs. Fox and Cushing, the former...