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...will be frank with you and admit that I been asked to prophesy in regards to the effulgent Yale-Harvard game. I will be franker with you and say that I would not prophesy victory in regards to either team as I don't think they are capable. Was I the mgr. of either club I would put in a entirely new team either from the Niles high school or the Harrisburg yacht club and make a living monkey out of either...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CROSS-EYED PARCHESI ON LINOLEUM RUGS NO GAME FOR AN OLD MAN | 11/11/1922 | See Source »

...their aims are, more often than not, misconceived everywhere outside of the student world. That they foster a closer college spirit and a wider university spirit there can be no doubt, and that their practical usefulness might be largely increased, if college governors and instructors would permit a franker and closer relationship to be established, is more than probable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/23/1882 | See Source »

...progress thus far. Undoubtedly, if more frequent opportunity of such a sort were taken by members of the faculty to explain and discuss with their classes, and especially with the freshman classes, the status and relations of the various courses and methods of work, a far more cordial and franker feeling would come to subsist between instructors and pupils, and a clearer notion of what is expected of them would remain with the latter. Prof. White's advice and ideas will certainly be carefully considered by his hearers. He began by intimating that the spirit of apathy and procrastination which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/4/1882 | See Source »

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