Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yale's last ditch is the provision of the Constitution that the final game shall be played in New York. Last year, after our Faculty had reluctantly consented to the New York game, Yale saw nothing in the Constitution to prevent her from forcing us to play in New Haven, and we will not consent that she shall revive that article this year for her exclusive benefit...
...ditch that breathes malaria, the stagnant cistern's scum...
...average undergraduate poem seems to me to possess any of the characteristics of so-called true poetry. The undergraduate poet rhapsodizes over a ditch bordered by hummocks of meadow-grass and clumps of scrubby, unsightly bushes; he goes into ecstasies over a frog-pond in a cow pasture; he personifies familiar objects; invests them with a glamour of brilliant colors, and imagines various noble fancies about them, or draws high lessons from their imagined actions or feelings, - what more does the true poet? In short, in criticising poetry it is hard to say just where sentiment leaves off, and sentimentalism...
...story of the man who sought in brambles a cure for wounds received from brambles. But I prefer to take what the lively bird gives us in its simplicity. What a large class of our fellow-beings is represented by "Tommy Tittlemouse," who "caught fishes in other men's ditches"! Many of us go even further, and, not content with the ditch of another, we seize his hand, make it a cat's paw, and supplement our fish with chestnuts...