Word: evening
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seems to us that Yale has the hardest victory to win, as well as the one most worth the winning. Yale was founded in a spirit of religious sectarianism, if not intollerance, and it must be difficult for her to meet even half way the growing need of American collegiate life, chief among which, of course, is freedom of religious thought. But the demand must be met, or the college must acknowledge herself defeated. This, we are sure, will not be permitted by her undergraduate spirit of pluck and pride...
Vacation is past and everybody has settled down to pursue the even tenor of his way, dreaming of the happy days just spent and looking forward, in many cases with not a little solicitude, to fourteen weeks of hard, incessant polling...
This work if followed in all its details might make a good memory, and undoubtedly would benefit anyone, but such rules as, "eat carefully," "drink carefully," etc., are not always obeyed, even though they have been dictated to the world by many writers for years, and the inevitable result of carelessness in eating and drinking shown. Such rules for improving the memory are then useless we think. Yet the book has many valuable suggestions in it, anyone of which would do one good. A chapter on the use of Narcotics is an example. Towards the end of the book...
...gymnasium. The unusually large number of men who presented themselves to try for positions was gratifying, but Harvard has especial need of a strong team this year. Yale came very near wresting the cup from us last lear, and judging from the present outlook she will make the contest even closer this spring. The men who won prizes for Yale are almost, without exception, still in college; while we have lost Baker, the winner of the 220 yards dash; and Bradley, Chamberlain, Smith and Wheeler, winners of second prizes. Two members of the last year's tug of war team...
...great ill-breeding, but it is a nuisance to both instructors and students; it is impossible for the former to lecture, or the latter to listen with equanimity with all this noise going on in the entries. Men should remember that the corridors in Sever are very resonant, even when people are walking in them; perhaps this is unavoidable - but loud talking and whistling should be stopped at once and altogether...