Word: either
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President Edmund Wetmore presided, with Dr. A. P. Peabody and Rev. Francis Peabody on either side. Among the guests present were Chauncey M. Depew, who spoke for Yale; Rev. Dr Henry J. Vandyke of Princeton and Frederic R. Condert of Columbia. Henry Villard, who recently gave $25,000 to the Law School, was also present. The dinner was in every way a most delightful one, and broke up in the "wee sma' hours" of Tuesday morning...
...most prominent base-ball men, and to accept those of her boating men and ten-year graduates, thereby placing herself in an unenviable light before the eyes of other large colleges. As the matter stands now, it seems to have narrowed down to one of two disagreeable alternatives: either that Yale desires to emulate the big boy in the primary class and have a chance to "lick" all the little boys without interference; or, as the Courant fitly says, Yale men "are altogether too prone to imagine other colleges prejudiced against" them. This latter alternative is rather the worse...
Week-day morning prayers at 8.45 a.m. No seats are assigned, either for officers or classes. Prayers will be conducted by Rev. Alexander McKenzie, D. D., from January 27th to February 23rd, and by Rev. E. E. Hale, D. D., from February 24th...
...main channel of the sidewalk into deeper gulfs twice last evening in voyaging from Holworthy to Weld. There was water everywhere, and nothing to guide him in it. The president is away, we know, but we must appeal to the pity and humanity of the residuary powers. Let us either have light, or raised sidewalks in the yard until the spring floods are over, or else do please, kind masters, give us gondolas...
...lower classes in that department." In conclusion, Mr. Shaler refers to the English system, by which "many of the secondary schools of that country have in their possession presentations and scholarships which enable youths who win them to defray in part, or wholly, their education at either Oxford or Cambridge. ... The effect of these presentations both on the school which gives and that which receives, is good. They help the lower schools to fill their classes with youths contending for the prize, and they give to the universities well selected students...