Word: displays
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Prizes will be awarded in sparring, not for most blood drawn and knock-downs achieved alone, but for best display of science...
There is, however, an old custom which years back was supplanted by an innovation, and if it chooses the class of '76 can restore, as well as keep up, old customs. On this day, on which we display ourselves as "liberally educated young men," and aunts and cousins, young and old, come to gaze with wondering eyes upon us, we appear in a dress by no means appropriate to the occasion. No blessing was ever conferred upon man equal to that which prescribed the form of dress which he should wear at evening. A morning coat can be of many...
...grand apotheosis doth display...
...hundred and seventy-six years of instruction. To be sure, her books will hardly rival, in the department of belles-lettres, the poetry and prose of Harvard's Lowell, Emerson, and Holmes; but in solid, substantial intellectual food of every grade she can make a truly grand display. And why not grade the Yale collection according to the intellectual effort necessary to understand the writings of her great men? Let it begin with the spelling-book of Webster, over which the children of a past generation forgot their toys in their enthusiastic efforts to master the rudiments of English orthography...
...antithetically to Emerson and Fiske, as trivial; and who considers Porter's work the culmination of the intellect of Yale, - such a man, we say, has far too low an estimate of Yale's worth for us to contest it. But as the full array of Yale's centennial display bursts once more upon our stunned imagination, we can but say, with poor old Tate Wilkinson, after his famous walk to the window...