Word: throbs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...retrospective glance upon the state of our athletics and upon the records made by our teams fails to cause our hearts to throb with that bashful modesty which for so many years has been a conspicuous feature of the character of every Harvard man. In fact to put it squarely we have been disgracefully whipped in foot ball, the chief fall sport, and even in tennis we bend the knee to our victorious rival, Yale. If as we sincerely hope, defeats are the best incentives to victories, our teams must have received enough incentive during the last few months...
...Sorosis was Boston's wet-nurse. She it was who gleaned from St. Beuve's "Portraits de Femmes celibres" the secret of being fascinating without beauty, and determined to make herself a martyr in the cause of antiquated gas-bags and dyspeptic hierophants. And many is the versified heart-throb she is obliged to listen to in her capacity of mother to all the intellectual neophytes whose only excitement is her weekly reception, where they hang upon the lips of Asphyxia and her friends and pay less attention to the "flow of soul" than to the material formations in corsets...
...love-prone heart must throb...
...waking throb of nature's heart...
Where mighty oceans throb, they play...