Word: proved
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Baby Pathfinder which is being issued this summer, will prove a very valuable source of information for those who intend leaving Boston for any destination whatever...
...apparently of no use to any but their owners, seems hardly calculated to inspire very profound wrath, it does become irritating when repeated each summer. But perhaps these are the perquisites of the carpet-layer, or of that strange boy whom no one knows and yet who manages to prove himself so much at home in the college rooms during the summer. The safest course after all is to strip the room for the summer, or give your worldly possessions there contained to the janitor...
...advanced sheets of the Harvard Monthly for June prove that, excellent as was the Monthly for May, the best work of the students is coming to the light but slowly. The present issue, while less attractive than the last to the general reader, is without doubt the best exponent of Harvard undergraduate thought yet published. The leading article by Mr. C. P. Parker, entitled "Reminiscences of Oxford," relates concisely and sympathetically the writer's memories of Oxford undergraduate life. "A Ballad of a Windy Day" is not in Mr. Houghton's most successful vein. But many of the lines...
...attained in the memory of undergraduates - that of defeating the Yale freshmen in both games. We trust that the freshmen will realize the importance of a large attendance on Saturday, and we are sure that the nine, individually and as a whole, will strive earnestly to prove itself a credit to its class and college...
...conduct of celebrations is now in the hands of the students. Let the students prove themselves men. If opposition to the desire of some to build fires must be shown, let it be done in as gentlemanly a manner as possible. But insomuch as the students are themselves responsible, each man ought to feel his responsibility, and look to no other man as his leader in a matter of purely gentlemanly conduct...