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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lining. Can not an individual be a freshman and a man at once? If these would-be tough freshmen were mature enough to realize how silly such performances are, it is safe to say they would not disgrace their class and themselves again. It is unfortunate that when newspapers like the Record are ever on the watch for some foolish scrape to magnify, these childish freshmen should be so willing to furnish opportunities. Nipety-two has made an honorable name through the efforts of the manly young fellows who fought so well Saturday. Alas, that the newly-earned honor should...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/4/1888 | See Source »

...eternal law that sin and suffering go together; if sin is kept, pain is kept, if the sin is gone, pain also must have gone. The gospel is not like an easy badge to be put on or off at will. Christ will not come unless he can cast out the devils and send away the swine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Chapel Service Last Evening. | 12/3/1888 | See Source »

...condition of things was so extraordinary that the matter ought to have been brought before the association at a special meeting convened for that purpose. If Yale can claim any glory from a championship won, as has been the case this year, well and good. It was like the claim of forfeit when a team had been unable to reach its destination on account of the breaking down of a train, or a detention of some nature. Harvard has a good eleven. The Harvards played their game with the Princetons on the grounds of the latter, and not on neutral...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale's Doubtful Honors. | 12/1/1888 | See Source »

...early times when courage, dash, and enthusiasm were the qualities which led to victory, the followers of the prophet led the way. At the present time, When cold science and skilful strategy overcome all opposition, the Semites have fallen behind. The splendid charge of Moslem cavalry, and the rock-like firmness of the infantry, have been rendered useless by modern firearms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Future Prospects of the Moslem World. | 11/28/1888 | See Source »

...religious differences between Persia and Turkey would make a great religious movement impossible. Isolated attempts at a religious crusade. like that which marked the rise of Islam, may succeed temporarily. The Mahdi in the Soudan may hold out for a time against the force sent against him. The intelligent Moslems, however, realize the utter hopelessness of an assault upon the Christian powers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Future Prospects of the Moslem World. | 11/28/1888 | See Source »

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