Word: prided
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...than in any previous period of its always brilliant career. At no other time certainly has it met with a more flattering reception from the outside world nor with more universal approval from its readers in college. The success of the Lampoon has always been a matter of common pride with all Harvard men, and to its support heretofore they have always shown themselves ready to contribute whenever such support has been asked of them. It therefore seems like a sad commentary upon the patriotism and generosity of the college that the actual support accorded the Lampoon this year...
Pleasant interchange of thought between two journals supposed to be devoted to advancing the welfare of humanity: "The New Haven Register remarks: 'Our Continent is to be moved to New York. New York takes a justifiable pride for being an universal dumping ground for all kinds of trash.' New York is very thankful, however, that Yale College is located in New Haven." - [New York Commercial Advertiser...
...That Yale has the misfortune of being partially represented by a paper so vengeful and vindictive as the News is very unfortunate; that the News itself seems either unable or unwilling to speak temperately and fairly, we sincerely regret. Nevertheless it will, we hope, be Harvard's effort and pride to act towards Yale in all things with moderation and with courtesy. That she does not receive like treatment in return cannot change her determination...
...agility and grace. The game was played on Cambridge common when Harvard was yet in its cradle; the old willows of Holmes re-echoed with the shouts of lacrosse players when Washington was but a boy. To such an antiquity as this the lacrosse player can well point with pride. As the only really autochthonous and truly American game, rivalled only by tennis as to age and duration of vogue, it certainly should hold a high stand among our college sports...
...mere ignoramuses in these branches which colleges are supposed to emphasize. Every one naturally enough does not care to devote several years to a thorough and scientific mastery of the classics, unless he intends following such studies as a profession, but every college man should, and does, take some pride in his superiority over the unschooled who have not engaged like privileges with himself. To devote an hour, which would be spent after dinner in idle loafing, to a classical lecture or reading, is not a very heavy tax upon a man when it is all for his own personal...