Word: prettier
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...some purpose, with some real life, with which they can hardly be said to have association now; and one also recognizes that no better purpose and no truer activity could be established there than those embodied in the Annex. It is quite true, too, that for the Annex no prettier, no more appropriate, no more convenient and more beautiful locality could be found than these grounds; and it would seem quite as true that these grounds and buildings would do more good in the hands of the Annex than in those of their present owners, that to the world...
...than at Eton, keeping it as much between his feet as possible. To see a skilled player do this at top speed, winding in and out among his opponents, with the ball never more than a foot or two away from him, is a pretty sight, and it is prettier still to watch him "running it down the line" with all the players crowding round him on the watch for a "rouge;" as an enthusiastic Etonian has been heard to observe, "it is the poetry of football!" A "rouge" is won when the ball passes behind the goal lines...
...team was entertained at dinner by the Faculty of the college of Ottawa, at which the President of the Canadian Foot Ball Association presided. In his after dinner remarks, Mr. McIntire, the President of the association, congratulated Harvard on her victory, and said that he had never seen prettier playing and hoped to see our game introduced into Canada in the near future. Capt. Kimball after thanking the Ottawa men for their hospitality, proposed three cheers which were given with a will, after which the team took the train for Montreal, which they reached at midnight...
Although in winter the yard, and especially the trees covered with snow, never looked prettier than yesterday and the day before, yet we know very well that this snow will not last and that we are in the midst of another thaw and its consequent evils. Nature has separated the quiet city of Cambridge and the raging and restive Ohioby many miles. Nevertheless we are threatened with considerable danger when the next thaw sets in, which probably will be immediately. Every one knows what the danger is here, continual rivulets throughout the yard through which all have to wade...
Pach gives it as his opinion that the Wellesley girls are prettier than their Vassar sisters...