Word: gloriously
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...something. It is simply apalling to consider the amount of learned thought which is displayed in the ever recurring and ever instructive "voted to adjourn." We are glad to see that, in the lull of the great athletic problem as to which college lost the most blood in the glorious foot-ball campaign of last season, the seniors of Williams feel called upon to declare themselves in favor of a more extensive study of Physiology. But is not this tinged with a little of the spirit of the assassin? Is there not a concealed purpose to be able to find...
...towards the proposed complimentary dinner to the university crew of last year is highly discreditable to the students. The committee has been obliged to postpone the dinner because only about thirty men have subscribed. At the dinner two years ago over seventy men attended. Can it be that the glorious victory of our crew last summer is not appreciated? Unless more men signify their intention of thus doing honor to the crew, the dinner will be given up. The necessity of such a proceeding would be a disgrace to the university...
...have taken the trouble to sign their names. This indifference on the part of the college is wholly indefensible. The university crew of last year did its work in the face of greater odds than any Harvard crew has ever confronted. Its victory was hard earned and the more glorious on that account. We all felt the importance of the triumph when parading the streets of New London last June, and cheering to the echo the men who had sent the crimson to the front. Have the four months that have since passed driven from our minds all recollections...
...House. Again, in 1789, the then President Washington visited Cambridge, and was given a reception in Wadsworth House. This time, as we might naturally suppose, a brilliant assembly of prominent men of both literary and political talents, assembled in the old building, and we may well imagine what a glorious ovation there was to the idolized President of the United States...
...Princeton game: "The game resulted in a sad defeat for us, and one long to be remembered. There is no doubt but that a winning game would have been played had the nine been better supported. Many times have our teams been inspired with Yale's enthusiasm to win glorious victories. Harvard sent two hundred and Princeton over a hundred men to eneourage their representatives, while less than twenty Yale men went to support our nine...