Word: fours
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...this address, Professor Palmer lays down four fundamental precepts for one who is learning to command his own language. "Look well to your speech"; "if we would cultivate ourselves in the use of English, we must make our daily talk accurate, daring, and full...
...varsity crews are doing the routine work without any change. Nearly forty men are at work, and probably enough of them will be kept to fill four crews. Last year's 'varsity is kept intact as the first crew...
...forty-four men who reponded to the call for candidates for the Yale baseball team, fouteen were on the squad last year. Three of the candidates for pitcher were in several games last year...
...examination of the tables shows that the vote by decades is in every instance in favor of the extension. Only thirteen of the sixty-nine classes voting show a majority opposed to the change, and four "break even." The classes opposing the extension are '40, '41, '49, '51, '53, '58, '66, '71, '75, '88, '97. The classes that voted even are those...
...will be noticed that the assertion which has frequently been made, that the later classes were opposed to the extension of the suffrage, is not borne out by the result, as, of the classes voting since 1870, only four show a vote against the proposition...