Word: evens
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...which they would otherwise be obliged to purchase. These men have now either to make use of the reserved libraries in Gore and Harvard Halls, or they are compelled to buy all necessary books, either new, or at second-hand. The first alternative is not constantly convenient; the second, even when the books are bought at second-hand, entails more or less expense. Moreover, it is always necessary for every student to purchase (or to borrow from private sources) all "text-books," strictly so-called...
Emotion is a French national trait, he said. Frenchmen take an eager interest in their relatives, and even in the families of their friends, an attitude which differs widely from the one common in England and this country. Their spontaneous intensity and unity of family feeling is founded on a recognition of the laws of nature which bind irrevocably parents and children...
Four of last year's players are back on the Yale team which is lighter and faster than the University team. In record the teams are fairly even. Both have won or tied all their games this season but whereas the University team defeated Princeton on January 20 by only one goal, the Yale team won from Princeton last Saturday by a score of 3 to 0. The game this evening promises to be one of the hardest of the intercollegiate schedule, with the chances of victory considerably in Yale's favor. The latter's team has played more games...
...seems to me that the minimum ought to be at least $50. This involves a personal expense of but $10 a year for five years, and surely a man in behalf of the class can make so small a sacrifice as the saving of one dollar a month, even out of the meagre twenty five which I suppose most of us will be getting for some time to come. In the eighties the average subscription was much larger than it has been in the past few years. Can we not do at least as well as the older classes...
...Braz said, "Every Breton because of his national celtic traits is born a poet." The collection of lyrics and epics published by the Viscomte de la Villemaque in 1839 was ranked by George Sand above Homer, and a more recent collection by Luzel and Le Braz is even more surprizing. As an example the lecturer recited. the funeral ode written by Julien Cadonal on the eve of his execution...