Word: manners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...next Harvard-Yale race. The sentence we refer to is this : "Successive victories over Harvard at New London in the last two years have given an additional stimulus to aquatics at Yale, but neither this nor last year's brilliant prospects have brought over-weening confidence. Judging from the manner in which the crew works, one would think there were great odds to contend against." The writer of the above evidently thinks that Yale has not heavy odds to contend against this year, or, in other words, that victory for Yale is an assured thing. Such expressions of confidence...
...Yale are now content. . . . Yale's boating prospects were never brighter. Successive victories over Harvard at New London in the last two years have given an additional stimulus to aquatics at Yale, but neither this nor last year's brilliant prospects have brought over-weening confidence. Judging from the manner in which the crew works, one would think there were great odds to contend against...
...above-named candidates, five pulled on last year's crew. Of these the Tribune says: "They have pulled long enough to be able to handle an oar in a scientific manner, and no one doubts that they do so. Their experience in previous races will stand them well in hand, and if they pull as lusty an oar as they did last year Yale need have little fear...
...being made, the motion finally was withdrawn. A vote was then passed that the amended scheme be adopted and forwarded to the corporation for their approval or rejection. Nothing was said concerning the printing of the scheme; do not, however, the same objections against printing the rules in the manner proposed apply with equal force to the printing of the scheme? How, then, does it happen that the full scheme and standing rules should appear in print, in but one college paper, and that, too, as though they had been finally adopted? Was this announcement official...
...last number of Harper's Weekly takes up the question of "practical joking" by collegians, and discusses it in a reasonable if not in an original manner. But we have to make the same objection that we made once before - the newspapers fail to make distinctions; and when Harper's Weekly classes the innocent extravaganza of the Harvard freshmen at Boston Music Hall in the same class with the recent kidnapping and hazing affairs at other colleges - then we claim that it shows lack of discrimination and of fairness. We entirely agree with that journal, however, when it says, "There...