Word: affaire
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...city, one of the college's greatest benefactors, there will be no cane or monument rush at Williams this year. The new senior society, the Gargoyle, took the initiative in doing away with the time-honored monument rush, when on Friday it voted to use its influence against the affair. Saturday the senior class held a meeting and voted to prevent the rush if possible. The junior class was also favorable to the scheme, and the lower classes will hardly venture to carry on the rush against the wishes of the faculty and upper classmen...
...they must now be abandoned. It is also matter of regret that the class games must all in future be played on Soldiers Field, thought this is not so directly a result of the events on Monday. There is a lesson to be learned from the whole affair which we hope will be committed to memory...
Enthusiasm of the wildest and most rampant kind pervaded Yale at the close of the first debate ever won from Harvard. Of course it was a freshman class affair - but '98 has done herself proud by the real service which its representatives have rendered to Yale - in vanquishing the speakers from Harvard, eloquent and finished though they were. It is believed now that the tide in Yale debating has been turned, and a return to the old days of the Linonian and Brothers societies is not far off. The sophomores this evening conferred a unique honor upon the three Yale...
...grow enthusiastic over the competition in which the brain prevails. We believe, however, that even now the sober praise which Harvard men never deny to scholarly ability is far more significant than the lavish commendation which they so recklessly bestow on the favored athlete. The latter is an affair of the moment, called forth by an enthusiasm which passes away with its immediate cause; the former will last as long as he who has won it shall live to enjoy...
...inconvenience which it is well known would follow upon a really fair decision. The strict application of theory to practice in the college world demands a disregard of one's temporary convenience which to many students would seem little less than brutal. An ideal is such a persistently determined affair that one shrinks from encountering it. When a man knows he is honorable, why expose himself to the unpleasant suggestion that he is not? The hint that his estimate of himself has been too high is of course absurd, but it is extremely disagreeable, and no man in his senses...