Word: evening
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...glad to see from the Yale Courant, that the secrecy long in use at Yale is in a fair way to become abolished. It was impossible a year ago for any one of the plebs, as we might say, to obtain information about the progress of the teams, - "not even enough to base a sensible bet on," says the Courant moodily. If the bets alluded to were those made by Yale men last spring, we must allow that the Courant is quite correct, - and adversity probably will bring circumspection with it. However, the fact remains that Yale men were kept...
...elderly lady who had invited a favorite nephew to spend New Year's day with her did not understand from his written apology that he was suffering from an attack of erysipelas. The note read: "Dear aunt, I should certainly have been with you had I been well; even now I am in great pain while I write with my nose." It is presumable that a man who could successfully accomplish the feat of writing with his nose would be easily forgiven for a breach of etiquette...
...follow that the graduates of the university are any the less men, because they have come into contact with wickedness? Who is the manlier, he who has never tasted the pleasures of vice, who perhaps does not know that such pleasures exist, or he who, knowing the pleasures, possibly even having some time enjoyed them, at length overcomes temptation? According to a milk-and-water standard of morality, the former is the better man, there hangs around him an air of immaculate purity, wings might become him. But is not the latter really morally higher; does he not have more...
...author and rehearsing all the small talk about his actions, might be well-timed; especially, when this practice is allowed to become detrimental to the impartment of a critical knowledge of the said author's works. Short enough time is given in a half course to acquire even a superficial acquaintance with the best writings of our authors of this century; so let us not detract from that short time in order to give undue prominence to matters surely of little importance. When out of but two lectures allotted to a writer, nearly the whole of these two lectures...
...have examined quite a large number of these critiques, and almost without exception they confound criticism with fault-finding, and, in many cases, go almost to the extent of abuse. The average man seems to think he is going to "get even" with the world at large and his instructors in particular - presumably for inappreciation of his own efforts in the past - by vigorous "sitting on" the work of some known or unknown classmate. Perhaps this large amount of ill nature, and what might be called literary dis-curtesy, has given rise to doubts in our instructors' minds...