Word: grace
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...swear, my dear Grace...
...division of the present base-ball league into two - one composed of Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Brown - the other of Dartmouth, Amherst and Williams. This is a mistake, and should be corrected. It is the prevalent opinion here that the warm advocacy of this measure comes with but ill grace from the college whose nine has suffered defeat at the hands of Dartmouth in four out of the six contests in which the two have been engaged. It is doubtless true that Dartmouth will make no violent opposition to the proposition, choosing rather to submit quietly to a manifest injustice...
...this business, a number of very important morals lying hid, that our erring sister would do very well to take to heart. Yet Yale's favorite and traditional attitude is a belligerent one, and we doubt very much if she will take it all with any very good grace; rather, we are led uncharitably to suspect that the role of injured innocence will seem to her the most natural one to take...
...Senate of the University of Cambridge has passed a grace for the recognition of Cavendish College as a public hotel of the university. The institution which has thus been at length received into the university as an independent factor was originally begun in 1873 with three students, under the title of County College. The Duke of Devonshire, who is chancellor of the university, subsequently permitted the college to assume its present name. It was designed to enable students somewhat younger than ordinary undergraduates to pass through a university course and obtain a university degree, to train...
...Thus baggatiway or lacrosse is associated with history. The gentlemen who recently met to form a new lacrosse team for Harvard's honor, have no reason to be ashamed of a game which for many years has been the national sport of a people noted for endurance, agility and grace. The game was played on Cambridge common when Harvard was yet in its cradle; the old willows of Holmes re-echoed with the shouts of lacrosse players when Washington was but a boy. To such an antiquity as this the lacrosse player can well point with pride. As the only...