Word: renowned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There flourished last year a society, known to some as a monohippic institution, and to others as the Harvard Shakspere Club, which, after winning for itself a brief but more than cosmopolitan renown, quietly expired. Many of its former friends breathed a sigh of relief at its dissolution, and now say, peace to its ashes. Others, however, contend that the absence of the "hippos" ought not to mean the annihilation of the Club, but that the society now has an opportunity to bestow dramatic laurels upon undergraduates as well as upon more advanced students of "the art of dramatic expression...
...here to memorialize their valor and their sacrifice. Yet we treasure in our heart of hearts this grand memory of the past as a precious heritage, and we garner them to-day in the lap of our dear old mother as the rich assurance of our triumph and her renown. But, sir, time does not suffice, nor is it for one of us alone, when so many more eloquent are awaiting your call, to recall the grand record of the past or to express in prophetic language the still greater future that lies before this powerful institution. I know there...
...this year at other colleges to wrest the inter-collegiate championship from Harvard. The Yale trainer is reported in the papers as saying that Yale will send a stronger team to Mott Haven than she has for years; and Columbia, to, has a hard working squad, bent upon gaining renown for Columbia in track athletics. Brooks, the sprint runner of Yale, intends to run this year, if we are to believe reports, and the candidates for the running high jump and the broad jump, two events in which Harvard has lost very strong men, are out in full force...
...certain class wins renown on the field and on the water. It is graduated. And as its athletic glory fades away it wins for itself the glory that is more lasting, for greatness and nobility and genius. Men formerly thought "indifferent," become men of strength and opinion. The hitherto unseen current of thought is now clearly visible. So has been the past. So will be the future. And while it is not crankism to say that the sooner this current of serious thought displays itself, the better for the thinker and for the college, it is more than crankism...
...choice between street-sweeping and waiting on hotel tables. Still, on the other hand there is a great swarm of men imbued with false ideas of their own powers, driven on by vanity, and often by parental pride, who come to the universities expecting an easy living and final renown in some one of the professions...