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...nine has hardly yet shown, but we hope that the importance of the occasion will call out those qualities. Remember, Ninety-one, you are fighting for more than personal or even class glory. The whole college watches you in your contest today. See that you do not disappoint it. In conclusion, we offer to the nines our hearty encouragement in the work...
...into the hands of the upperclassmen now in college, shall be handed down to the coming classes in as prosperous a condition as it was at the beginning of the present year. We hope that at the spring concert now but a few weeks distant, the Sodality will not disappoint the audience that will assemble in Sanders Theatre...
...seems a pity that the Monthly, while maintaining its standard as a publication of high literary ability, should so often disappoint its subscribers by not being ready for distribution at the expected time. When the Monthly was first started, the editors were prompt in fulfilling their obligations, but the policy of the present board seems to be one of continual procrastination. There is plenty of time for the editors to get their manuscripts ready for the press, and they are not subject to the same petty inconveniences as those who take charge of the college bi-weeklies. Even a delay...
...education, and may be put down as the compromise candidate of the two opposing elements. He is a man of broad learning, a bright and witty talker and writer, and an advocate of the university idea as against the college idea. His selection by the Corporation, would, of course, disappoint many, but on the other hand, it would be applauded by others, among whom are many members of the faculty. - New Haven letter in Evening Post...
...First - We believe that the nervous strain imposed by the present honor system upon a large number of the students is incompatible with their highest physical and mental development. We know, many of us by experience, that from the freshman year the desire not to disappoint the hopes of parents and friends in this particular leads to worse than useless worry and anxiety, and interferes seriously with that quiet of nerve and mind essential to the best mental work...