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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...work so hard and so faithfully to gain victories for Harvard. Any man on the crew or nine will bear witness that croaking has brought the college many defeats and no victories. Men cannot be expected to play ball or row with any spirit when they have to look forward to slight praise if they win, and to unsparing and often ignorant criticism in case of defeat. We hope that the college in future will so frown upon this malicious spirit of croaking that the busy band of croakers will finally die out for want of patient listeners...
...umpire look like he made...
...seems so big dat he can't look roun...
...questioned, are soon apparently to be peculiar to Yale, and will probably be the most conspicuous and lasting monuments of her conservatism long after the present generation has passed away." On the same subject the Princetonian waxes eloquent and gives the plan its hearty commendation. We may, perhaps, look to see the experiment tried at other colleges, that is, if student opinion can bring about the adoption of the plan...
...best society throughout Germany. In other words, it is "the thing" to be poor, and live as if you were poor, in Germany. The military and civil officers who form the flower of German society are poorly paid, and, not only make no attempt at display, but look on display or luxury as vulgar. They get the consideration which they enjoy, not from their means, but from their position. The possession or acquisition of money is, therefore, not a sign of social success. A man's wife and children are not troubled by his not possessing it. Some...