Word: elements
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...learn that there was much surprise felt in New Haven at the tone of the last Advocate in its criticism of the football match. The Yale students, it seems, had no idea that we could complain of our treatment there or could protest against the prize-fighting element of which they make a specialty. Of course, when a person does an ungentlemanly action, and then declares that he did not know it was ungentlemanly, while we pity his ill-breeding, it is useless for us to argue the point with him. And however unsatisfactory this may appear, it seems...
Bouffe becomes glorified, when played by such artists; the objectionable element is by no means prominent; glissez et n'appuyez pas is the motto of this troupe; nor is there a shade of the vulgarity and imbecility which Mrs. Oates and kindred "artists" offer us. It is much to be regretted that the houses have been small and unappreciative. To-night, M. Capoul sings Wilhelm in "Mignon," - a part which he created at the Opera-Comique. At to-morrow's matinee, the whole company appear in "La Grande Duchesse," and in the evening, Mlle. Angele takes a benefit...
...came the ivy orator, Mr. William Bancroft Hill, of Temple, N. H., who kept his audience constantly entertained. His oration was marked by an easy, characteristic humor, and was distinguished from the customary productions of the kind by the presence of a vein of pathos, which is always an element in humor of the highest quality...
...succeeded as well as do the equally juvenile youngsters who try to come as near getting drowned as they can by walking on thin ice, and some twenty have got a ducking already, and have been put to soak till next year. They will bring a delicious lotus-eating element into your class, dear Freshmen. Such men never "brace." They find walking on thin ice so exciting, that they keep on trying it, and are drowned forever in the sea of lost degrees on Commencement Day. Now, if I were you, I should not, on the whole, get dropped...
...students of most character and intelligence control the opinions of the college, and so they do to a certain extent; but too many of them exert an influence only over the few who are like themselves, and when they find that they have no power over the know-nothing element they are inclined to form a mutual-admiration society for the exchange of their valuable opinions...