Word: hints
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...which points were won by one of the smaller colleges. Harvard has no intention, of which we know, of withdrawing from the inter-collegiate games and, consequently, we hardly see how the probable influence of the dual league on the intercollegiate athletics would be, as the Times seems to hint, bad. Neither Harvard nor Yale is likely soon to give up the chance for glory in winning a championship in which all the colleges compete...
...regulations prescribe hours within which he may do this, but the rule is more conspicuous for its breach than for its observance. For the short period of the mid-years, however, it would be a kindness to the majority if the virtuosos on these instruments would take the hint themselves, or if the proctors would insist. It is even not too much to ask of any well-disposed man that he will play very little in the hours when he has a technical right. It rather hinders than helps the study of a Greek chorus, to hear latter-day choruses...
...impossible to retrace. It would also inaugurate a new and most dangerous policy, for the college is now asked for the first time to cut off a part of its best education to regain time which has been worse than wasted in the lower schools, while there is no hint of any attempt to strike at the real cause of our delays in education. We feel, indeed, that the consequences of the proposed step would be so momentous to the welfare of this and other colleges, and to the whole community, that it ought not to be taken without...
...would be amusing were it not sometimes annoying to see the misconceptions which are rife in regard to Harvard. All sorts of stories find circulation and credence throughout the country, and the public seem eager to catch the first hint of any novelty, real or unreal, and to give it circulation. A case in point is the following, clipped from the Cornell...