Word: life
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Nation of October 24, has an interesting article on "College Life for Wonien...
...seems eminently true of college life that when everything appears to be running smoothly and in good order then there is sure to be any petty mischief or misconduct brewing. This morning, after such a season of refreshing quiet, passers by the front of Sever were attracted by a legend painted across the rear of Appleton Chapel condemning in well rounded terms our faculty. Such childish tricks are undoubtedly to some degree thoughtless, and cannot therefore be visited with any severe penalty; and yet they exhibit to a disgusting degree a lack of refinement. If there had been any humor...
...article in Harper's Monthly by Chauncey M. Dephew, Yale '56, on Yale as a factor in American life, will be followed by an article on Harvard by Professor Charles Eliot Norton, and one on Princeton by Professor William M. Sloane...
...recent successes have included the famous "War Papers.' the Lincoln History and George Kennan's series n "Siberia and the Exile System") will publish the long looked for Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson, whose "Rip Van Winkle" has made his name a household word. No more interesting record of a life upon the stage could be laid before the public. Mr. Jefferson is the fourth in a generation of actors, and, with his wife and grandchildren, there are six generations of actors among the Jeffersons. His story of the early days of the American stage, when as a boy, travelling...
...account for the general college sentiment in the matter, and certainly at first thought the restriction does seem harsh. A little careful reflection, however, puts the subject in a new light. If the student will but fairly ask himself the question, "what after all is the purpose of college life?" he cannot fail to see the justice of the faculty's regulation. College life is free and easy, and athletics particularly so engaging that it is very easy for us to forget the higher duties we are here to perform. But intellectual culture is, or ought to be after...