Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...forgotten past? We believe that the best interests of our college can be served by assuming towards such attacks the utmost indifference. As an honest man can live through the worst of slanders, so the honest purposes of the University can survive the utterances of a few jealous individuals. The past history of Harvard is filled with successes. Something more than insults is needed to convince us that the tide has turned and that our hope for the future is baseless. In the consciousness of noble aims and ambitions Harvard University may well thrust aside with little attention, the petty...
...Tech. men threaten to push the Harvard men out of their position in the torchlight parade next week. The former are jealous because the latter have been assigned a place in line very near the head of the procession. If the Harvard contingent is as large as it is expected to be, the Tech men will undoubtedly lose their courage before the night of the parade...
...Harvard's glory is apparent in her poverty. The pressure upon her resources is simply tremendous. Men less kind and courteous would be ceaselessly wrangling and bitterly jealous, if called to struggle a these do for their share of the college income; while each department, each scientific school, the gymnasium, the library, get but part of what they need, and each is just able to pull through the year and not run in debt. This only means that the life of the school is grandly vigorous. Its various departments beset the sorely tried president and treasurer with the appetites...
...bottom of the matter and we cannot but urge upon our older newspapers the great necessity of exercising a much more strict control over what is written for their columns about our large colleges. The spirit of gentlemanly emulation ought to be fostered, but a spirit of criticism and jealous carping is to be avoided like the plague...
...soon as her guests had departed, however, and while she was sweeping the house in her every day clothes, she began to hear horrid things which were said about her on all sides. People seemed bound to be disagreeable to her because they were jealous...