Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Lathrop, a well known Boston athlete, has been recommended to the faculty of Harvard College as master of athletics at Cambridge. Mr. Lathrop has had a great deal of experience in preparing athletes for important events, and has always been an ardent admirer of athletic sports out of pure love of the games. He was one of four men to organize the Union Athletic Club, which gave the first impetus to athletics in New England outside of the colleges. When he was some years younger than he now is, he was known as one of the best 'all-round" athletes...
...little more forethought on what we ought to have by us when the desire to spend an hour or two in reading came upon us, we would gain great returns for our trouble. A great part of the aimless reading of the summer is a direct result of pure carelessness. If we should only take proper precautions to have by us some of the books which we have determined to read before the advent of warm weather, we would undoubtedly accomplish far more than if we trusted to chance to furnish us with our reading material. Every...
...death of Aaron Rogers Crane the members of the senior class feel that they have lost a sincere friend, an earnest worker, and a Christian gentleman, -faithful, simple, pure; all who knew him were strongly attracted toward him, and his untimely end is felt as a personal loss; and the class desires to pay honor to his many noble qualities, to mark them as examples of manly virtue, and to tender its heartfelt sympathy to his parents in this their bitter hour...
...requires some headwork), to play a good game of lacrosse, base-ball, or foot-ball, but who have not had any experience. should hang back and decline to try for positions on a team, not out of timidity, for this is a "rare commodity,"but out of pure indifference, is disgraceful. Individual players, whose reputations are made before they come to college constitute our nine, eleven, and twelve, and as long as they are in active exercise the teams prosper, but when any one of these men fails, through sickness or injury, the choice of a successor lies between...
...their spelling of "favour," labour," "honour" and "cheque." Whatever modifications in English orthography have been the result of a desire to expunge useless letters. The Englishman replies that in these cases we destroy all trace of the origin of the word. But "favor," "labor" and "honor" are pure Latin, and the insertion of the letter "u" is a bit of spurious orthography, while "check" certainly comes near the French source (echec) than when spelt "cheque...