Word: gaine
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...opposed the plan strongly on the ground that Yale would be one in three. But the cause of the opposition which grew up among the majority of men was both a sympathy for the interests of the smaller colleges and a prevailing opinion that while Yale had little to gain by the change she had all to lose. For these two reasons, then, Yale has acted as she has, and as to whether she is willing to enter any new league, consisting of a larger yet limited number of colleges, as has been suggested, no definite answer...
...from the early archaic conventionalities as the influence of athletic games. The canons of form they produced have fashioned the feeling for form and proportion ever since. The reason of its widespread influence is that Greek art was at the same realistic and identical. Before art can gain universal validity it must pass through nature and rise higher than the reality from which it is conceived, and this is what happened in Greece. The influence of the athletic games can hardly be exaggerated. They gave the artist a chance to study the human form, and the continual practice of athletes...
...under this wider object. For the former is but the expression of a real kind of literary attempt, and is, as we know, the motive which gave life to our old "Advocate," and the latter is a necessary condition to the success of a paper. From this answer we gain no warrant to say that college papers should be filled by anything else than matter written by students. But we are told that we all like to read articles by our professors and by well-known outside writers. True, but we can read such things in any periodical...
...explore the unknown regions. The possibilities and chances of life are of two sorts. Those we strive after and desire to possess, and those to which we turn a deaf ear. The latter are continually knocking for admittance. They are love, truth, tenderness, purity, faith, fidelity, etc. Sometimes they gain admittance to a man's heart, but oftener are driven away by the all-absorbing cares and duties of every-day life. It is so even in religion. Religion is everywhere seeking ingress to the heart of man, and the knowledge of Christ is ready for those who are willing...
Captain Perry of the Williams nine and President Merriman of the Columbia team were in New Haven last week trying to gain admission of their respective teams into the proposed new league...