Word: life
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fear of punishment, that prevents sophomores to-day from reviving this custom of the past. But in any case the influence resulting from hazing could not be worse than that from "Bloody Monday." The scenes that follow the punches gives the freshman the worst possible impression of the life he is about to enter, and his first impressions are sure to be his strongest ones. Moreover, the fear of censure and criticism, mentioned by you editorially a day or two since, obliges many freshmen to entertain sophomores not only against their inclinations, but often contrary to principles they have been...
...Yale law school opened with the largest junior class on record, the number being about 70. In the course of an address of welcome, President Dwight delivered a characteristic speech, in the course of which he said: "I am much gratified to see this department of the university life growing into such a big and earnest school of the science of law. We regard you as part of the university, and desire you to have the spirit of the university and an appreciation of your position...
...society represents a great principle in political economy, the success or failure of which must make a marked difference in the relations of human life. For this reason the welfare of Co-operation here is the welfare of Co-operation elsewhere, and success here cannot but exert some influence abroad...
...than Yale's enterprising, go-ahead President how much good that victory and the other victories won by the blue-clad athletes were worth to the university. The American youth is essentially either an athlete himself or a lover of athletics, and when he arrives at that stage of life at which he enters college the athletic reputation of the college has much to do with his selection, especially when he is allowed to make it himself...
...wounds which were partly healed during the summer recess, and must awaken in the hearts of everyone who claims to possess any love for Harvard, serious thoughts as to the reason for our continued discomfiture. It is true, indeed, that athletics are not the main purpose of college life, but nevertheless, "Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well," and therefore, it shows a lamentable lack of determination and perseverance when the largest university of the country, with greater conveniences for athletic practice, succumbs as a matter of course to colleges which have neither its size...