Word: bacon
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...late Dr. Bacon, of New Haven, once said to Professor Summer of Yale College, "I do not see anything in free trade except, 'Thou shalt not steal...
...confirmed," he said, "in an opinion which, as a Yale man, I early formed in regard to Harvard - that there was no college in the country whose graduates improved so much after leaving college. We have a right to be proud of Yale, since the great compliment which Lord Bacon, in a familiar passage, prophetically paid us. Lord Bacon, as you all know, says: 'Eating makes the full man, drinking the ready man, but to have been educated at Yale College, a wise man.' Now, at Cambridge, they attempt the impossible. At Yale they aim at and achieve all that...
...junior crew is rowing as follows : 1, Agassiz and Kendall; 2, Thorndike; 3, Penrose; 4, Le Moyne; 5, Bliss; 6, Goodwin; 7, Bacon; 8, Bryant...
English I. will take up Bacon's Essays at the next recitation. Either Abbott's or Louis' edition is recommended...
...following men are now trying for the Junior crew: Goodwin, Bliss, Bryant (captain), Bacon, Burr, Agassiz, Le Moyne, Walker, and Penrose...