Word: prided
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...will wear this tie with pride tonight,” King said...
...that’s enough. Success in the world of Harvard athletics can’t be measured in conventional terms like NCAA tournament appearances lest too many athletes who come through here be considered failures. There is pride enough in a job well done and in having no regrets and in sometimes valuing the game well played over the game favorably decided...
...been around athletes who’ve confessed to playing not for the ‘H’ on their sweater but for their own pride and for the guy next to them. Gradually, this has become my approach, too. Life on the Cambridge side of the river humbled me more times than I would care to admit, but my time on the other side offered nothing but affirmation...
...terrible idea for faculty to take pride in drawing a lot of students, and perhaps even to be punished on occasion if they draw too few and be rewarded—rather than viewed with suspicion—if they draw many. Faculty might even be given incentives to evangelize for their subject, not just to take whoever comes and to blame the admissions office if there are too few takers...
...will miss the writing aspect of this job a great deal. Unless you’ve tried it yourself and have been immersed perhaps a little further than expected, the thrill of newspaper writing is hard to describe. Aside from the ephemeral pride that comes with seeing one’s name in print (hopefully above a worthwhile story), there is the formidable challenge of forging interesting prose out of occasionally uninteresting material. To be sure, there are those rare exceptions when stories are so compelling that they’ll write themselves, but for the most part sportswriting...