Word: maye
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...declared void, common justice, not to mention the agreement of Messrs Gill and Beecher last year, would leave but one course open to Yale. But with the constitution to back her, she can with some show of right, take the stand she has. Whatever the outcome of the struggle may be, Harvard will have learned one lesson at least-that in dealings with some institutions, official declarations recognized as binding, are far better than mere promises whose fulfilment rests on such a frail thing as a "sense of honor...
...Winkler, presided and acted as toast-master. Each new member read a part in answer to a toast. The subjects were as follows: Mr. Ropes, "The Hesperornis, the Apteryx and the Dodo, in their relation to the Myrmecobius and Plato's Doctrine of Ideas." Mr. Shoemaker, "Harvard Oratory, may it ever be what an Adams, an Everett, and a Quincy have made it." Mr. Cabot, "The Transcendental Unity of Aperception." Mr. Warren, "The size and relations of the atom and molecule," Mr. Moore, "The Greek moods and tenses; their influence on modern culture." Mr. Jacobs, "The Mugwump; his position...
...may be seen from the following extract from yesterday's Globe, the Yale-Princeton game will probably take place in New York next Saturday...
...play at the time and place scheduled on account of the interdict of the Athletic Committee; and either vainly hopes (which is not likely) that this interdict will be withdrawn, or else boldly declares the intention of the Yale eleven to struggle for the championship by whatever means it may. honorable or otherwise...
...without giving another long detailed account of the game; which the editors think hardly worth while, as the subject is now four days old. But to correct the entirely wrong impression the accounts of the Boston papers seem to have given those who did not see the game, it may be well to state that although the Harvard team was outplayed, it gave Princeton a terribly hard struggle; and that under conditions as favorable for Harvard as those Saturday were for Princeton, the score made on that day might easily have been reversed. The playing and captaining of Sears deserves...