Word: inferiority
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...foot-ball team, playing every day against a very cuch inferior team, has fallen into that dreaded state which has so often proven Yale's downfall; it is that of over-confidence. It is but natural when one side is always the winning side, and that too with no great exertion, that this side should begin to feel an over-weening confdence in its own skill and knowledge, and this has been the case so far this season with our team. No important games have as yet been played, and the judgment formed by the team of its strength from...
...which is as yet free from all taint of professionalism; it is a sport which is free from the dangerous overexertion which renders foot-ball and boating objectionable to many; and it is also a means whereby many men can obtain invigorating out-door exercise, who are debarred by inferior physique from engaging in the muscular sports, though it must be well understood that no man can hope to become a good shot unless his muscles have been well hardened by exercise, and his nerve got into good form by steady living and sufficient sleep...
...learns from his own work. As civilization generally has advanced, so that society has been willing to accord a true value to mechanical pursuits, and invest them with the humane Interests which they rightfully claim, and so that men follow them as intelligent men and not as the inferior drudges of society, they have been coming up into the broad light of the university and assuming the character and interest which rightly belong to them...
...that I have to suggest beyond these two, is a radical one which, however, I am sure meets with the approval of a large number of men, As at present conducted, the hall offers us a heavy breakfast and dinner with a very light lunch which is of very inferior character. According to this we get nothing whatever in the middle of the day. I, for myself, would prefer a very much different plan and I am sure that I am not alone in my preference. Instead of the hot breakfasts, with two kinds of meat and several vegetables...
...heiniousness of teaching a scientific subject without the use of any specified text-book we fear will not be fully appreciated by the leading educators and teachers of the land. The careless, off-hand way in which these military gentlemen wave aside the elective system as admittedly inferior and second-rate, is quite refreshing. Harvard surely must blush for her shortcomings...