Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...circumstances. The plan seems to us so admirable and even practicable that we are tempted to suggest that a similar one be undertaken at Harvard, especially since such advantageous quarters could probably soon be obtained when the new Law School building is completed and Dane Hall be destined to hear no more the voices of future Choates and Sumners. Of course some skeptic will tell of that much-abused indifference, and of the state of college life here, so different from that existing at Yale, but we are almost persuaded that not only would such an institution as a University...
...number of persons should go down to New London to the race. The tug must not be occupied by Yale men alone, and the greater our representation the better. Comparatively few men ever see any commencement exercises until their own turn comes. With these extra attractions we hope to hear of a great many staying over till the first of next month...
...hear that there is quite a boom in lacrosse this spring at Yale. Our men, who are becoming more and more indifferent, will need a fresh start if they hope to hold the lead, as they have done of late. '85 brought in several very fine players, but beyond these there seems to be no material forthcoming to make up the team in future years, and to add to the discomfort of the supporters of the game, several of the finest players will leave next year. With these facts in view, our prospects are threatening. And yet we dare assert...
...This caps the climax - but, no, we will probably soon hear a complaint that the examination rooms are not supplied with the latest periodicals...
...must be an astonishing reflection to the younger generation of Englishmen that the famous university men of fifty years ago, whom they constantly hear praised, had not the smallest tincture of science, The Oxford men - Newman, Manning and Arnold - knew nothing of it. The Cambridge man, Darwin, when at school, which was a principal feeder of Cambridge, heard his pursuits described by the head master as the cultivation of 'stinks' - which, indeed, became the popular university term for them." - [St. James' Gazette...