Word: brought
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale. There is much in the book that he extremely interesting, but nothing so much so as the graphic picture that is given of the endless rivalry between the sister institutions-Yale and Harvard. We lose sight of that other field-the intellectual-in which the two universities are brought together in competition, and we see two great bodies of students perpetually preparing for the struggle that is never decided. Every winter the long process of training is undergone cheerfully and perseveringly, and every spring and fall the representative teams meet to add one more victory or defeat...
...manner as make the book particularly attractive to the reader. The accounts of contests are concise and clear, and the tables of statistics, records and facts are the most comprehensive that have ever appeared in a book on athletics. Although the book is written for Yale men, some facts brought out in connection with contests between the crimson and the blue are interesting to Harvard men also...
ENGLISH D.- Abbott to Flint, Dane; Forsyth to Pease, Mass. 3; Pease to Workman, Mass. 1. Blue books to be brought to the examinations...
...that." The fathers of several of the faculty and many students are tradesmen. According to the committee, such persons must not be admitted to the yard. It is a pity if students can only judge fitness by vocation. Such snobbishness is a curse to the University and has brought it into deserved disrepute...
...marriage is the theme. But beside others, the story has this additional merit, that, as the writer says-and no one after reading would attempt to contradict him-the plot is founded on facts. The reader finishes the story with nothing but pity for the poor, insulted little Frenchman, brought by love to mediocrity; and is forced for a time on this one phase of life so well depicted...