Word: prided
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...understand that the clubs which form the Union Club have become exceedingly remiss in their obligations to the organization. Some of the clubs have not yet paid their rent. That is a matter which each club, that has the slightest pride in its own name, will immediately regulate...
Among the reports of the various departments of the University appended to the annual report of the president, the statement of the affairs of the library merits special attention. The library is perhaps the best managed institution in Cambridge, and most graduates and undergraduates feel a particular pride and interest in it. In spite of the absence of Mr. Justin Winsor the work performed at the library last year showed the usual advance in amount and efficiency. The accessions were larger than in any year before except in 1888; the number of users of books was larger than last year...
...letter [See above] referred to by you Monday failed to convey what I tried to make it say. You think it "expresses rather blindly the pride which the graduates take in an athletic victory," and add, "This man exults over our rowing record of years...
...have received a communication from a member of the class of Seventy-four which expresses rather blindly the pride which the graduates take in an athletic victory. This man exults over our rowing record of years ago and bids us not forget that record. But what is the use of raking up the records of those old races, or even of trying to prove that we lead in total number of races won. The main question is how to win a race now, and if our loyal correspondent will send us his solution of the problem, we shall be glad...
...traditions of the college and the fixed policy of the past thirty years. This period has witnessed a slow but steady raising of the standard of the degree as a result of a radical improvement in the whole system of teaching. We can look back on this time with pride and satisfaction, feeling that every opportunity to elevate and broaden our scholarship has been eagerly improved. If this long and honorable record is now to be closed and our policy reversed; if our degree is to be degraded by our own free act, we shall be compelled to abandon...