Word: heard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tone of the college press is improving every year, and we notice a more manly spirit. It was toward this feeling of friendly and open intercourse that Mr. Cowles' speech tended the other evening, and those who heard it were more than glad to return the advance in double measure, And so we feel sure that any ill feeling between Harvard and Yale in the past is due in a great measure to the careful nourishing of the seeds of jealousy by outside influences, particularly by that of the daily public press. Careless reporting and "special" work done...
...that he may know God. Nature shows God, but some men do not see any divine agency, because God is not in them. They have schooled themselves not to see, and so they will remain, forever, in the dark. When the voice of duty is no longer heard, then the soul is dead, although the understanding may remain. The sin of to-day is the insensibility to spiritual life. Men are asking whether life is worth living, but the souls of such men are dead. "What profits it a man if he gain the whole world, but lose...
...victories won against Yale last year. This decision was very natural and very laudable; but aut pecunia aut nil and names with dollar signs affixed to them in a miserable blue-book are not money. Whereas over $100 have been subscribed for, the management has as yet heard the clink of but $60. We trust that we need simply mention this fact without enforcing its significance and the remedies for it by mighty arguments. The course to be pursued is too axiomatic in its plainness to admit of demonstration...
...past to arrange that while the classes are engaged in the exercises around the tree the chimes of Christ church shall play "Fair Harvard." During the silence which follows the cheering, the sound of the chimes lends a significance to the hour which is highly impressive. One who has heard the strains of the grand old ode thus rendered, and has experienced the deep impression which is made upon all, cannot but wish that the custom should be made a university institution and thus give to each class-day an added significance as unique among collegiate graduating customs. We speak...
What Harvard will do in the matter remains to be seen. Another mass meeting will certainly be held to decide what shall be done; and Princeton also must be heard from before we can do anything. Now, indeed, O Yalensians, have we cause for plotting. Shall we return to the fold or form a league with Columbia and allow Yale to win the championship of nothing? Wait...