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Word: prided (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which prevailed at that time and by which the Co-operative was saved an inglorious fall, is good evidence of how the society was appreciated. But let this appreciation be shown this year, and at once. Hearty and immediate support is the society's due. Harvard interests and Harvard pride should be enough to move every man in Harvard University to become a member of Harvard's most useful society. Freshmen who are at all reluctant about becoming members may well do away with all their reluctance, and feel assured that in joining the Co-operative Society they are doing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/2/1885 | See Source »

...same direction for a series of years; and if, every year, twenty men with position, resolution and tact, would make it their business to resent offenses against the tone of the college in character and conduct, we should end by imbuing the very atmosphere with an honor, manliness, pride and delicacy, to which all things could be entrusted, and which would be the most precious thing a young fellow coming here would gain,- worth far more to him than his learning or his degree. There is no reason why, in a little community like this, the tone of character...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Letter from Professor James Concerning Celebrations. | 6/8/1885 | See Source »

...part, major and minor, touched upon by the class in the study of the subject. Others are mere outlines, and still others contain nothing but the most difficult portions of the branch on which they are to aid their concoctors and manipulators. Some men make "cribbing" a science, and pride themselves upon their success in eluding the vigilance of the faculty, while their friends look on and wonder and wish that they, too, could be successfully wicked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cramming and Cribbing at Yale. | 6/4/1885 | See Source »

...will find their movements watched by the large body of orderloving students. At other colleges when such liberty has been allowed, no complaint is heard, and it has been found that if students are entrusted with power there is no tendency to abuse it: on the contrary they take pride in showing themselves worthy of the trust reposed in them. Why should not such be the case at Harvard, the college above all others which should stand at the head in this movement toward a liberalizing of college government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/26/1885 | See Source »

...Lawrence. In all these important events we have reason to hope for successful results. Nothing has been left undone by our representative athletes to assure success in their several sports. Barring accidents we feel sure that the undergraduates of to-day will have good reason to look back with pride upon their day's work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/16/1885 | See Source »

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