Word: highly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...strife has returned before. True. But now it has not returned to be driven away by any soft words of conciliation. It has come to stay until the spirit of Yale College has risen to a level of manliness high enough to cast its disapproval upon such speeches as that with which Captains Beecher and Peters have favored their friends. The Advocate, in its last number, has some pithy and hard editorials upon the re-appearance of this "muckerism," but we can say that the Advocate has not gone a step too far. Men who would speak as these...
...interest shown in the hare and hounds runs this fall gives evidence of the high appreciation which is placed on that sport by the students here. It is a pity that the weather is now becoming so cold that many of those who have run with the hounds so far this year are by degrees dropping out from the list without any fresh recruits taking their places. In all probability there will only be two or three more hunts this season, and an athletic sport which had such a good beginning ought certainly to have a good ending...
...witnessed during the Thanksgiving game. Is there no way by which referees can be taken from neutral colleges-colleges which are not in the league? To my suggestions of this the answer has been returned that there are no colleges in which the standard of football is high enough to warrant our choosing a referee from them. If this is the case, let us by all means have graduates of Yale, Harvard or Princeton for our judges, rather than take a man who is at the time a regular member of one of the competing league elevens. Private animosity...
...line of Mackintoshes, rubbers, both high and low cut, and overshoes...
...Byrd Page, the champion running high jumper, is going to stop record-breaking after he makes two more attempts. He is attending the University of Pennsylvania and devoting himself to the study of electricity...