Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...throw myself on your generosity. I am jealous of the credit of American sports, and I ask you to join all your efforts to say that bitterness and hatred shall cease. This spirit should be banished from any field where college men meet...
...shall be as gods, knowing good from evil." The story of the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden, was found in the Vendedad, though the chief attribute of the Parsee Areman was that of a mischief-maker. In both accounts, there is a marked anthropomorphism. God, in jealous anger at man's divine knowledge of good and evil drives him away from the garden. It was not strange that St. Paul, the first to bring the legend into prominence, should see in it the story of the fall of man, but it is possible that something of value...
...Self" which, it will be remembered, appeared in the New England Magazine for December 1890. The imputations that Harvard is a place where the higher thoughts of life are disregarded which the University has been forced to bear up, against owing to the misstatements of newspaper reporters and other jealous persons, is shown to be false by this excellent article. We hope that the article may be read by as many people as possible and that it may be scattered widely in those parts of the country where Harvard is misunderstood...
...Clef" is far less faulty than previous work by its author, who succeeds very well in working up a trifling incident. Perhaps, however, the author was not aware that his friend M. Lebon was telling him, in a slightly altered form, a familiar story in which a jealous husband walls up the stranger in the closet, instead of locking him in and then setting fire to the house...
...will be remembered that at the Foot Ball dinner last fall a great deal was said about the feeling of undergraduates toward graduates. It appeared at the time that an idea had for some time prevailed among the graduates that the undergraduates were jealous of any interference on the part of graduates in the management of college athletics. This sounded strange to most of the undergraduates who were present and was not understood; for the greater part of the men in college bad considered graduate opinion to be invaluable. The graduates have evidently found their ideas about the undergraduates were...