Word: creditably
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Capt. Cook replies: "It must be true, indeed, that the enforcement of correct principles of rowing has had much to do with bringing about the victories in which Yale's standard has been carried so valiantly to the fore. But, while you so generously insist on giving so much credit to the 'Cook Stroke,' let me remind you that the most scientific principles would have gone for nothing without the skill and brawn, the splendid discipline and the unswerving confidence of the men in the value of these principles...
...officers, 1880-1885. "In this list, about three-quarters of the 1,813 entries relate to science, including in that term medicine. Very inaccurate estimates of the relative activity in literary and scientific publications of some leading American universities having of late years obtained currency, and perhaps credit, through the public press, it is permissible to remark in the interests of truth, that it would be discreditable indeed to Harvard university - old and well-equipped as it is - if any other American institution could approach it in the range and volume of its annual literary and scientific publications." The excess...
...received with three cheers and a tiger. The speaker said he had taken some part in the changing of the name of Yale College to Yale University, but he asked all present to remember Prof. Fisher. He felt that he had reason to look back on his experience with credit, for this was the 10th alumni dinner he had attended, and he had four more to attend. The speaker said he believed we were passing into a new era at Yale, as well as at older universities, and he had felt the time had come to assume the name which...
...short stanza, "The Coming of the Fog" is followed by "An After Dinner Story" written in an easy style which does credit to the author. The Monthly ends with two editorials and book notices...
...home in Cambridge, yesterday morning, after a short illness. He was a young man of great ability, and his class and the college suffer a heavy loss in his death. He was fitted for college at the Boston Latin School, from which he was graduated with great credit, winning one of the coveted Franklin Medals for excellence in scholarship. His college course was marked by the same application, and he received his degree of A. B., summa cum laude...