Word: followance
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...independence, by sacrificing honest convictions to the demands of party; granted that the populace often prefer a superficial pretender (without capacity, acquirement, or character, and possessing only sagacity in pandering to the inclination of the hour) to a man of integrity and knowledge, - it does not on these accounts follow that no young man who aspires to a high standard of excellence should venture into public life. If the republic is now suffering from maladministration, the fault is theirs (if such a class there be) who, while having the wisdom and the character to guide her aright, decline to develop...
...making of the real orator, consisting, as the treatment of this subject by Cicero has admirably shown, in a general and detailed acquaintance with all departments of knowledge. To satisfy these conditions, by commencing the training here and marking out a distinct practical road for the student to follow afterward, should be a function of this University. At present nothing of the kind is attempted. "The idea seems to prevail that an orator, like a poet, is born, not made; whilst the fact is clear, that a real orator is the most artificial product of human education...
...about admitting men from the Freshman class in scientific schools to row together with the Academic Freshmen. Moreover, no Freshman crew sent delegates to the convention at Worcester, so that even the frail plea that, by consenting to the action of the convention, the Freshman classes are bound to follow the lead of the University crews is taken away. The only Freshman present, we understand, was the president of the convention, Mr. Cook of Yale, and he represented the College, not his class...
...Scientifics." No notice was given to either Amherst or Harvard Freshmen, the only two other entries; much less did they ask it as a favor. In the latter case, we have no doubt Harvard would have yielded without a murmur, while Amherst would not have been slow to follow. As it is, both Amherst and Harvard have refused to row against Yale's consolidated Freshman crew. That they are justified in so doing by the course Yale has pursued, no one unprejudiced can doubt. With some degree of sharpness, however, the Yale Courant notices this disagreement. "Dishonorable" and "cowardly...
...fable which tells how an old goose and a young duck once found a hole in the ice in winter-time, and how, though the goose could not be induced to accompany the duck into the water, partly by praises of the bracing and healthful effect sure to follow, and partly by gentle physical suasion, she succeeded in getting the duck in, and how, when once in, the goose would not let her out again. The duck's remonstrances were monosyllabic, partly expletives corresponding to those men use under similar circumstances, and in part adjectives applied to the medical advice...