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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...defeat by Harvard was the only one which the Dartmouth eleven sustained this fall. A. C. Gildersleeve has been elected captain of the Columbia foot ball team for next year. The authors to be read in English A, the last half year, are Addison, De Foe, Dryden, Pope and Swift...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/11/1889 | See Source »

...drove the sophomores back but carried on decidedly vigorous offensive tactics. The sophomores, surprised by this burst of energy, fell back and reformed their line. Another rush then took place, but it was so dark that when the opposing forces became mixed it was difficult to distinguish friend from foe. The whole affair was finally ended by each class marching around the yard and cheering wildly. The outcome of the rushing, such as it was, resulted in the favor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 10/2/1888 | See Source »

...convention in New York were Hon. Joseph H. Choate, president of the fraternity, the Rev. Edward Everett Hale, George William Curtis, and Everett P. Wheeler. At the banquet this evening at Delmonico's Hon. Chauncy M. Depew, Yale, '56, representing Psi Upsilon, will respond to the toast, "Our Dearest Foe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 5/4/1888 | See Source »

...complained that the cause of the failure of the magazine was due to jealousy and envy, "in a place too, where the bad passions should never come, in the sacred groves of Academus, where we have witnessed the emotions of an envious spirit, which has shown itself an unnatural foe to its literary seniours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Journals. | 2/28/1887 | See Source »

...here some of the most ominous signs tell of the presence of him who said, "I came not to bring peace on the earth, but a sword." Thursday's lecture was devoted to the discussion of the question whether economic theory can be Christianizad. After reference to the formidable foe which the Christian sociologist finds in the realms of trade, where the desire for property has become the overmastering passion, and the enormous inequality in possessions has created envy and social discontent, the lecturer set forth the difficulty in the way of convincing the American laborer that these social differences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christianity and Socialism. | 1/17/1887 | See Source »

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