Word: needlessly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would seem proper, therefore, that Yale should take her turn, and play the game at Princeton. It is, to say the least, a slightly indelicate proceeding, to send delegates to have a part in a friendly meeting, and then directly they return, repudiate their actions, and take a needless stand. We sincerely hope the correspondent of the Globe has been misinformed...
...this kind at Yale, though usually given by the president there, account, to a large extent, for the close bonds between the college government and the students; the receptions of the Classical Club in Cambridge last winter were highly enjoyable and also highly humanizing in this way. It is needless to advise any one who knows how charming a man Dr. Hale is, to take advantage of his kindness and attend his reception to-night...
...meetings, as well as to those who witnessed the exercises. The college has every reason to be proud of last year's achievements in track athletics, and the victories gained there are heightened by contrast with the ill success with which we met on field and water. It is needless to say that the students should support the association in all its efforts, as every man in college feels called upon on his own account to show an active interest in this branch of athletics. The success earned in track athletics for seven years, and the consciousness that...
...committee has been unable to secure Sever 11 for the election on Tuesday evening next, consequently the class election will be held in Boylston Hall. In the list of tellers which appeared in yesterdays paper, it is perhaps needless to say, that the word "to" should be omitted...
...utter impossibility of accomplishing such fundamental reforms without the strictest regulations upon the part of the faculty, seconded by the most determined stand made by parents; and, what is more, by a thorough reform of the personal character of the students themselves. It is true that great and needless expenses are incurred by the more wealthy of the students, but to claim that the student body as a whole is given over to expensive living because of the above cited existing abuses, so called, is to deny the exceptional advantages offered to and embraced by students of small means...