Word: comely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hale was accepted even after he had declared that it would be impossible for him to devote to the University in the future the time necessary to fulfill the duties which his position as one of the preachers to the University would impose upon him. Those who have come in contact with Dr. Hale either distantly as in chapel or more closely elsewhere will acknowledge that each minute with him has been a source of gain for them. His sympathy, his cordiality, his readiness to help when advice has been asked of him have drawn to him the love...
...candidates. At Harvard we are told 251 prefer Blaine and 413 Cleveland. So far as it goes this certainly tends to confirm the statesmanship of Mr. Blane's letter from Paris. Turning to Yale, we find there 70 Republicans and 13 Democrats. No expression of preferences for individuals has come to us from Yale. We may seek solace against this adverse "straw" in the fact that Cleveland was elected in 1884, although the vote of Yale was then also against him. It is also worth noting that the Democrats at Yale have recently made great gains. Since 1886 the Democrats...
...office. The injustice of the system is intensified by the different standards of the various instructors, one says that his D equals 74 per cent., and another that it is equivalent to 65. No temporary palliatives will suffice; a radical change is needed, and it will come sooner or later. The present arrangement is not in harmony with our elective system and it must be altered. A number of the instructors are going abroad this year, let the faculty ask them to investigate other systems and report, and meanwhile give the system of doing without examinations a fair trial here...
...cricket team which went to England three summers ago, as well as several other well-known players. The Harvard eleven should receive some support from the college to aid them in playing an up-hill game, and certainly the encouragement always infused in a team by cheering would not come in amiss...
GUITAR CLUB.- There will be an important meeting this afternoon at 1.30. All must come...