Word: either
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...these criticisms doubtless have a certain amount of justice in them, but why all this needless extravagance? The exchange editor of the college paper seems to lack good judgment, to be immoderate in all that he does, giving either elaborate praise or uncalled for censure. He should, however, remember that extravagance, whether in praise or censure, defeats its own ends. In the case of praise the lies are too evident; and in the case of censure the bitterness very naturally meets with resentment...
Robert Winston has been engaged as trainer by the officers of the Yale Ath. Association, and he will hereafter be in the gymnasium to coach men who wish to take part in either the winter or spring games...
...arguments in favor of an elective system such as ours, this one of note-taking would seem to be most powerful. In the great majority of our courses text books are either wanting or are of only subordinate importance; and the student is made almost entirely dependent on his careful attention, quick perception and selective faculties to obtain in proper shape a digest of the instructor's lectures. These digests, together with the results of outside reading, give the student a collection of facts far superior to the best of the text books. This may be said advisedly...
...that is both disgraceful and thoroughly out of place. There is no reason why attendance, as long as it must be, should not be prompt. It used to be regarded a freshman trait to come into chapel a minute or more after the bell had ceased ringing, but now either upperclassmen must be called freshmen or late attendance at chapel must be looked upon as a dignified offence. The former seems to be the more natural conclusion...
...systems as actually at work in Harvard and in Yale shows, then, this remarkable fact. The irregularity of the average Harvard student is from a little less than three to five times as great as that of the average Yale student. The former is off duty, either from choice or compulsion, rather more than 16 per cent of his time; the latter from less than 3 and a third to a trifle more than 6 per cent." He gives strong testimony to the advantage he gained from the prescribed course, under which he studied. "Like him (Prof. Palmer...