Word: leaven
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...these college figures there is proof that the lines are drawn differently on partisan and economic issues, and that, as regards the tariff, the leaven of reform is doing good work. Thus, at Columbia, we find fifteen Republicans and fifteen protectionists. That this parity of numbers is merely a coincidence, however, appears from the fact that, although there were only eight Democrats represented in the vote referred to, there were twenty-one free traders, or six more than the total of Republicans. At Yale the protectionists fall 20 per cent below the Republicans, and the freetraders outnumber the Democrats...
...known for same years as a staid weekly periodical resembling the Advocate, but a trifle more newsy, appeared on Friday in a new form very like the CRIMSON. The New Jersey students will hereafter receive their rations of news items, accounts of base-ball games, etc., with the proper leaven of editorial, not at lengthy intervals of a a week each, but every other day. The editors whose enterprise has brought about this change, and the college which is to receive the benefit of it are to be congratulated upon this new departure. A tri-weekly is a long step...
...certain base ball games last year, "indicates a deplorable lowering of the general tone of college sentiment." These are golden words, and from them we gather encouragement for the cause of athletic reform. Not that we believe that Mr. Ripley reflects the general sentiment of Yale; but a little leaven of this sort introduced there can not but work some change...
...harsher term - of the Freshman Class. The very fact that the body of students who attended the theatre last Tuesday evening went in the name of the class, should have operated to make them behave themselves at least decently, even if they possessed in themselves no leaven of gentlemanliness. That they did not, is a disgrace rather to the schools which sent them here, than to Harvard College. But the latter is compelled to undergo all the reproach. It is now time for the press generally to magnify and distort the actual occurrences, which need no misrepresentation in order...