Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...German complains that a poor man's son cannot go to college at Yale because it costs so much. He wrote to the members of the graduating class at Yale, and from the 109 answers received he found that the average cost for the four years...
...important factor in the composition or our elective pamphlet, must it be pleasant to hear honestly-meant suggestions from every side and to hear them while it is yet time to comply with them. The final assignment of the annual examinations will also soon be out. But this list cannot appear till a second provisional list has gone the rounds of all the instructors for approval. As this second provisional list is based on the corrections which are now being made, it is hoped that here again all corrections which may be desired in the final, approved assignment...
...which with a wild throw let in three runs, which won the game. The game was not remarkable for any brilliant plays, yet was, on the whole, an interesting one. It illustrated the fundamental principle that every freshman nine is prone to weakness at critical points, and that they cannot get too much practice. The batting of the freshmen was fair, but their infield, with the exception of second, was very weak and needs strengthening. The battery work, with the exception of the throwing to bases was good. The following men excelled at the bat: Codman, Bates and McKean...
...discharged from clerkship, from positions on rail-roads and numerous other corporations on much less weighty testimony than the average faculty considers necessary to the infliction of discipline upon refractory students. In fact, high authority may be found in favor of such testimony. The technicalities of law cannot be wisely admitted into the common relations of business and life. In regard to that which touches the courts so nearly as the regulation of police removals in New York, Chancellor Howard Crosby, in a recent number of the "Forum," advocates that "the legislature make the board of commissioners' powers final...
September 30th we received a letter from Williams asking us to play them at Williamstown and giving us two dates, October 23rd and 27th. We answered that we would play on the 23rd. October 7th, a week later, Williams telegraphed, "am sorry, but cannot play you after all." The following day we learned that Yale was to play at Williamstown the 23rd...