Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Acta Columbiana publishes a very sharp and pithy "condensed novel" by Smintheus, which is an apt retort to Yale arrogance and a witty satire upon malarial Princeton. The dark De Briggs, a rival of Fitz Clarence, in order to be revenged upon the young man, sends him a catalogue of Princeton College...
...feeling of disgust among the spectators, he shows only too plainly by such conduct that the hisses of the spectators will have little or no effect upon him; and one ungentlemanly act certainly does not deserve another. It seems to us that an excited crowd is often too apt to misinterpret the actions of men who are in the heat of a contest, and by thus evincing their displeasure, leave themselves open to unfavorable criticism, particularly when disagreeing with the decision of the judges. Every one must know that the time of these latter is very much occupied, and that...
...been practising in courts of the usual dimensions. The conduct of the crowd in hissing the tug-of-war team from the Institute of Technology, which was pulling against the Jamaica Plain Boat Club Team, showed the kind and fair spirit in which a mixed Boston crowd is apt to look on students in general; and we were consequently sorry when the Jamaicas proved the winners, although they pulled in beautiful form. We hope the sports will be more entertaining next year...
...this by taking the trouble to look over the back volumes of the Advocate and Crimson preserved in the Library. So, too, colleges have their own air of personality. And this characteristic is nowhere more evident than at Yale. The Yale papers carry a self-assertive air, that is apt at times to degenerate into braggadocio, as in the recent matter of the football championship. Of the Record and the Courant, the former is the more gentlemanly; but the News is after all our favorite, - a model which other colleges dailies would do well to imitate . . . Then Columbia...
COLUMBIA will have her laugh at Princeton, as the columns of the Acta show. And the Acta is very witty, and we have our suspicions that "the home of M'Cosh and malaria" is apt to be worsted in an encounter on paper...