Word: downrightness
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...showing to the public the latest style of ulster or neck-wear. He is supposed to pass his examinations by means of assiduous "cramming" for several days before the examination, striving merely to get a mark which will prevent his getting "dropped." Few give us credit for the downright earnest work which is the rule here, not the exception. The men who spend their time in Boston (there are a few) are typical of but a small class. The majority of Harvard students are hard workers. We are aware that we have not reached the standard of perfection...
...content with merely writing what is in execrable taste; newspaper exaggeration does not satisfy them; they not only send in vague rumors upon hearsay authority, and "write up" matters of which they know nothing; but in order to make something spicy for sensational journals they resort to downright lying. It may sound harsh to speak of them thus; but so many falsehoods have appeared in print that all cannot be due to accident. We wish that some measures could be taken either by the college or the papers in town, effectually to stop this nuisance of sensational reporting...
...played, and received the following telegram. "No game to-morrow, Harvard Faculty object." In view of the facts which we published in last Friday's issue, we can well understand the opinion which the gentleman who received the telegram expressed when he characterized the telegram as a "downright falsehood...
...disheartened and disgusted with the study. The elective system had not then been introduced and there was no escape from the prescribed course. He is reported by one classmate to have said that he had not cut the leaves of some of the text books in this department. With downright frankness he said one day in the recitation room to the professor who was pursuing him with questions, "I don't know; you know I don't pretend to know anything about mathematics." Quickly, but good naturally, the professor replied, turning the laugh on the pupil, "Sumner! mathematics! mathematics...
This then is Yaleism. It can only be defended by saying that "all's fair in war." But if our inter-collegiate sports are to be carried on in that spirit it will bring us to most lamentable methods. Deceit, bribery and downright lying are fair in war, but are these to be defended in our manly contests? How far Yale is justified is, however, not for us to discuss in the limits of this letter. We have merely set before your readers the inside workings of the Yale game as we saw them last Thanksgiving; the suspicions raised then...