Word: prided
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...clock the gallant defenders of the crimson were taking their much needed rest. The freshmen made a good celebration upon very short notice. They behaved themselves well and deserve credit for the enthusiastic but withal guarded manner in which they gave vent to their natural and proper feelings of pride at their success...
...Saturday, it is expected to play the game with Yale. Rather than have such catastrophe occur the eleven had better be suppressed at once. The 'varsity team, on its return to the inter-collegiate foot-ball arena, has made an round which we can all view with pride and satisfaction, but the freshman have done nothing but bring dishonor upon their class and their college...
...that even a Harvard graduate may listen at once to after-dinner speeches by President Eliot, President Cleveland, Sir Lyon Playfair, Judge Devens and Mr. Geo. William Curtis. All of these addresses were remarkable for their strength and depth of sentiment. Through all of them there ran a just pride in Harvard's past achievements and a justifiable anticipation of her future capabilities. President Cleveland's speech was especially noticeable for its manliness and straightforwardness. Even though the occasion had not prevented the listeners from being too critical, they could have found no fault with what they heard...
Ninety, you have got lots of good material, and you are enthusiastic enough; but you have let pride and vanity overcome you; and you will fall unless you perceive your error in time. We believe you can beat Yale if you go about it in the right way; you are dolefully wrong, now. Is it your captain's fault, Ninety, or, Captain, is it the team's? Correct it whose ever...
...history of the college. The celebration of fifty years ago marked the beginning of great changes in the constitution of Harvard, which only with this year have reached their full development. Now at last the college has been transformed. And I hope it is not with idle pride that we now believe it to be the most liberal in its advantages, the most complete, the best American university. And yet the change is not so great as is often thought. In my day even we already had the elective system. The senior and part of the junior year studies...