Word: manned
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Persian poetry the questions which this controversy has raised are questions of opinion in regard to the relative merits of Mr. Emerson's earlier and later works. We can only say of Mr. Emerson, in the words of the contributor to our last number, that he is "a man who has grown gray in literature, not for selfish gratification, but for the welfare and happiness of the whole human family, . . . . whose name deserves to live unsullied and untarnished forever." When we have said this we have said all that is becoming of us, considering our relative positions...
...have received a protest against the proposed discontinuance of the study of Political Economy in the Sophomore year, announced in the last number of the Crimson. Our contributor argues soundly that nothing is of more importance for a man in this country than an elementary knowledge of economic science. The study of the prescribed course for the past few years has been little more than a hasty grind for an examination, and we suppose that to be the reason which has induced the Faculty to discontinue the study. But, however hasty the reading of the text-books has been, certain...
THOU old, sad man, whose hollow sunken...
...keep our columns free from that offence in future. The issue of May 3 is remarkable in many respects, but nothing has startled us more than the editorial which begins: "It is the boast of all Yale men, that the discipline of this institution tends toward the cultivation of manly and independent qualities; and we behold with pride, and make much of the fact, that Yale men are free from what we term the foppery and affectation of the Harvard undergraduate." With this exordium, which shows that habit will exercise its sway in spite of the best resolutions...
...improving a shining hour in a recitation which, by some strange mischance, lacked that absorbing interest which our recitations so generally possess, I happened to be looking at our elegant friend Augustus just as our instructor called upon Smudge. Now Smudge is not an elegant man. His clothes were certainly not made by Poole, and I don't think his hat ever saw London, or, if it did, it has certainly been on this side of the water long enough to make good a claim for naturalization; but though his clothes are far from new, they are very neat...