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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...strict accordance with this theory should a dinner culminate with chimpanzee for dessert, or is the descent of men ordinarily more than sufficiently illustrated at the end of a club dinner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Association of Western New York. | 1/28/1887 | See Source »

...figure six feet high and weighing 150 pounds rests with one end on a smooth horizontal plane and the other against a smooth vertical wall with which it makes an angle of 30 degrees. What is its tension? That is to say, how tight is it? What is its centre of gravity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/28/1887 | See Source »

...time the university has been busying herself in the acquisition of new lands and buildings with the purpose of enlarging her academical domains. We are doubly pleased to hear thus early of the beneficient results of President Dwight's administration. But we sincerely hope that that beneficence will not end at the purchase of buildings and lands. Now that Yale is "really and truly" a university, hope is cherished on every side that her curriculum will prove the reality and truth of her claim to a broader field of work than is possible for a college as such. Her methods...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/24/1887 | See Source »

...scarcely tell whether to go on reading or toss the paper away in disgust. In the last number the disgust won the battle. In this number the temptation is the same, but the piece is written in an easy style which has held the reader till the end...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 1/24/1887 | See Source »

...should be a large-minded and fair man in his search for truth in all his studies and investigations. The truth should be his light, and the end of his seeking should be the perfect light. He should judge all, both men and things, according to their true value, holding wealth and station in less esteem than character, the purpose of his education from its beginning to its end...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President Dwight of Yale Delivers a Lecture to the Phi Beta Kappa Society. | 1/21/1887 | See Source »

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