Word: boasts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...article which we printed on Friday last very effectively answers Yale's boast that she is more cosmopolitan than Harvard; that she is the national college, while Harvard is an affair of Boston, or at most of Massachusetts. It is furthermore shown that Harvard stands better in her own state than Yale in hers; for in twelve years the attendance here from Massachusetts has increased twenty-seven per cent., while Yale's increase from Connecticut has been only nine per cent. These figures alone are very gratifying. But we are still more pleased to find that the number from other...
...very long ago a copy of the Yale News made the boast that, while Harvard men were petitioning to have compulsory prayers abolished, the men at Yale were calling for an earlier honr for morning chapel services. This boast may seem to those, who know nothing of the matter, thoroughly justifiable; but it must seem to others, who understand the motives that prompt the movement, not so great a boast after all. The whole matter reaches a point of absurdity when it is known that the Yale sentiment was not after all as unanimous for early prayers as has been...
...matter what they may think about the advisability of morning prayers as now carried on, still feel they owe it to themselves to behave respectfully; - to say nothing of those who join in the service for deeper reasons. Those who make the disturbance seem to forget that Harvard's boast has always been that whatever her merits or demerits elsewhere, her undergraduates are gentlemen in more than mere externals...
...have invariably shown in victory as well as in defeat, becomes still more worthy of our admiration. We sincerely trust that no efforts to further the enterprise, so happily inaugurated, will be spared, and that the efforts will lead to success. And in the near future when Yale may boast of her extraordinary athletic facilities we will look for a list of long contested and well earned victories won by the crimson, despite the advantages enjoyed by the blue. We wish Yale the highest success in her undertaking...
...that the hour of morning prayers be made earlier is well worth remark. The evident purpose which has instigated this movement is, that the afternoon hours of each day may be free from recitations, and therefore open to exercise by the college athletic teams. The News takes occasion to boast that "there is no other institution in the country" which possesses "a strong enough love for their college or a general enough appreciation of her needs, to pass such resolutions." Some of our more ardent friends of the prayer petition are inclined to contend that in this very particular Harvard...