Word: prided
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...agree with our contemporaries in their expressions of regret at the prospect of the possible departure of Professor Palmer from the university. The efficiency and popularity of the department of philosophy at Harvard is a matter of pride to all. It should be the aim of the college to secure more men possessed of the ambition and energy of Prof. Palmer, while such a loss as this should not be permitted under any considerations. If an efficiency could be secured in every department of college instruction at Harvard equal to that of the department of philosophy or of Greek...
...humor. Its only considerable rival hitherto has been the Columbia Spectator, (although the Spectator differs so much in its scope from the Lampoon that it may perhaps deny that it is a rival of the latter,) and although it can undoubtedly be said without any undue exhibition of local pride that the Lampoon has far surpassed the Spectator in all literary features and in the character of its letter-press in general, yet it must be confessed that the latter often excels the former in the artistic merit and in the humor of its illustrations. A third competitor...
ended a stirring invocation to the "Harvard Corps, our bulwark and our pride...
...society; in justice, also, to those who might be disposed to criticise,-for no one would wish to criticise fellow-students through mere prejudice or misunderstanding-the following statement is made, showing that the society will exemplify that spirit of toleration and self-respect, which is the distinction and pride of Harvard...
Snodkins-unhappy wight, to whom are attributed all the sins of dry-brained wits-is credited with the criticism on our college papers of the present day, that no great names are now found among their editors, as of yore. Snodkins "points with pride" to the long list of college editors at Harvard in the palmy days of college journalism; when, for example, such men as C. C. Felton, George S. Hillard, R. C. Winthrop, and James Freeman Clarke condescended to edit and contribute to the Harvard Register, Pere; when Edward Everett was editor of the Lyceum; when Holmes...