Word: prided
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...freer plane of activity on which alone true scholarship can be found. But in spite of all that had been accomplished at that time, and of all that was due to the well won reputation of individual professors,- to whom the faculty still look back with veneration and pride,- it is the period of the present administration that will be remembered hereafter as the epoch in which the University was first fairly able to take its place among the great seats of learning of the world, and to adopt as its foremost purpose, not simply the regulation of more...
...game with Brown last week, the spectators showed a disposition to cheer at the errors made by the visiting team. This is almost without precedent at Harvard. It has been a matter of pride among the students in former years that, no matter how the Harvard team was treated away from home, the teams which visited here should be received with the utmost courtesy...
...maintenance (1) of national pride, interest and traditions; and (2) of the respect of other nations...
...Celt's quick feeling for what is noble and distinguished gave his poetry style; his indomitable personality gave it pride and passion; his sensibility an nervous exaltation gave it a better gift still,- the gift of rendering with wonderful felicity the magical charm of nature. The forest solitude, the bubbling spring, the wild flowers, are everywhere in romance. They have a mysterious life and grace there; they are Nature's own children, and utter her secret in a way which makes them something quite different from the woods, waters, and plants of Greek and Latin poetry. Now of this delicate...
...entries for the Winter Meetings must be made before tonight. More entries are needed and the whole University understands that they are; strong hopes are entertained by the management that not a few men will present themselves at this eleventh hour, and all men, who take a pride in seeing everything Harvard made a success, will share this hope. Let us speak a frank word about this. The Winter Meetings are losing their popularity and whether they would be advisable another year is a matter of doubt. The fact remains that this year they have been planned, advertised, and must...