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...together," but says in defence of its use that such a phrase is hardly slang when it "has passed as current by writers who have been set up as example of style." On the other hand, he continues: "It were to continue the discussion to an undue length to cite instances where certain words or phrases put under the ban, charged with being Americanisms, have been proved to be English, and good, old English at that. Our use of the words "guess" and "well" is one of the most familiar of these. Indeed, we must not look to London (pace...
...students for more room and at the same time return to the college a larger sum as yearly rent than could be obtained by investing the money elsewhere in mortgages, real estate or bonds. To prove that this latter fact is clearly so we have only to cite the case of one of the dormitories in the yard. Take Matthews for an example. This building cost, twelve years ago, about $100,000, perhaps a little more. Its net returns for the year 1883 were nearly $10,000, almost 10 per cent on the capital invested. If this has been...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON :-Dear Sirs : Having read to-day your article of the 28th, in which you cite Canon Farrar's views in regard to the (socalled) English system of classical education, I trust that, with your usual courtesy and fairness and desire to furnish your readers correct information on the subjects discussed in your paper, you will permit me to offer a few brief remarks, that may tend to modify largely the conclusions that might be drawn from the extract you have given...
...safer under the most than under the least paternal of college governments?" This correspondent's postscript is so vigorous and pertinent in its statement that it is worth quoting entire: "What, in particular, does President Porter mean by the faculty's providing for 'attractive amusements and athletic activities?' You cite the phrase, and the alliteration makes it a noticeable one. But athletic activity is, we should suppose, quite out of the line of most of those who are called upon to take it in charge. Then, again, though the faculty at Yale may at rare intervals afford the students amusements...