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Last spring we had abundant opportunity to ferment a spirit of "strife" over the disgraceful conduct of a certain member of the Harvard nine on the Yale field, and also over the malignant articles which appeared in Harvard papers-on the game where no regard was paid to the truth-but we let it pass by in silence for the sake of that good feeling which we joined heart and soul in trying to bring about. The manly spirit as displayed by our athletic teams and by the college in general, we think is quite on a "level" with that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 12/10/1887 | See Source »

...newspaper statements that the senior class of Yale College is in a ferment over Prof. Sumner's free trade teachings, the excitement being increased by the recent tariff controversy between the professor and Mr. Evarts, are said, by a large majority of the students, to be without any foundation whatever. Prof. Sumner devotes himself to teaching political economy, they say, and makes no special effort to inculcate free trade doctrines, although always ready to express his views...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/19/1883 | See Source »

...existed is perfectly proper. It is a self-evident fact that long hair per se is subversive of all established rules and authority. It is needless to dive into antiquity to secure proofs in support of this proposition. Society declares it a fact of common experience and observation. The ferment into which this country was thrown by the recent advent of a disciple of the heresy of long hair from a certain effete despotism across the water, alone stands as a sufficient warning against the dangerous doctrine. Harvard's continued success (certainly in a social way) is to be traced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD IN 1655. | 6/8/1882 | See Source »

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