Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...point, but it is a matter of question whether our interests really suffer by this resolution. For the present, at least, Yale has the advantage, because she can take valuable men from the Sheffield S. S. (in fact, we understand that this year three of the intended crew belong to that school), which is large, and comparatively few in it are graduates of any college; while we have only a small number in the Lawrence S. S., a large part of whom are graduates. But nothing prevents us from placing in our crew men from our Medical, Law, or Divinity...
...direction and the year after exactly opposite? We do not believe that, if falsehood be so particularly the characteristic of the student's nature, the simple act of graduation will change him from a Baron Munchausen to a "Truthful James." Neither do we think that the possibility of mistakes belong exclusively to the undergraduate, and that the graduate is entirely exempt from them. Probably a student may be biased in his statement. Do not the existing rules have a tendency to produce this effect? "Call a man a thief, and he'll steal." The student knows that his assertion, instead...