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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Graduates would regain confidence in our crews here, for we must not forget that some graduates rowed and won before we were born, and would support us with the same enthusiasm as the Yale Alumni support their undergraduates. This enthusiasm of Yale graduates and the co-operatian of students and alumni at New Haven is what makes it possible for Bob Cook, Esq., and certain other gentlemen to be travelling through the West this autumn raising large sums of money to help defeat Harvard again in 1888. If rowing interests and successes were left to become the burden...
...right way it needs no argument. Men would accept it at once without urging. He wished to speak of two subjects briefly. First, the intellectual difficulty which men meet with in religion. This difficulty must be settled first. Our minds must be satisfied. Man is a born questioner, he cannot help doubting. And the whole world is a Sphinx, full of my story. If it were not so, there would be nothing for man to use his intellect upon. Also the instruments by which we study are impaired by nature, and by prejudice. The lenses with which a man sees...
...pipe- if he can use one-and smoke, for we speak to him of the fullness of our heart or hearts (for, like the grilse, we have two: one in our tail for use, which is small, and one for ornament, which is large), and our words are born of experience, for we, too, the withered, were once green. DROPPED...
...Daniel Pratt was born in Chelsea, Mass., in 1809. He was apprenticed to a carpenter and followed that trade for a time, but disappeared suddenly and was not seen at home again for a dozen years. When he returned his mind was unbalanced, and from that time on he led a wandering life...
...courses is to make the students read and form judgments of their own. Here lies one of the most marked differences between the new and old-time modes of teaching English literature. Formerly the students were crammed with facts and dates, such as the time when the authors were born and died, and the names and dates of publication of their principal works. Anything more worthless than this is difficult of conception. Today a practical acquaintance with the works of the authors is the object sought...