Word: parts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...American colleges in the matter of athletic sports. Not only among educators and college men has the question been attracting much attention during the past few years, but since President Eliot's recent action in the matter the general press and the public have begun to take an active part in its discussion. Dr. Crosby's utterances on this and other phases of college life have recently been stirring up a lively debate on the subject. No statement of the whole question, we think, can be better than that given in the last Nation, a statement that is worthy...
That highly aristocratic journal, the St. James Gazette, contained in a late number a detailed account of an exceedingly interesting performance on the part of the students of the University of Edinburgh, an account which we reproduce in another column. What morals the English papers have been drawing from these proceedings, which, we believe, have become customary from long usage and sanctioned by venerable tradition, we are uninformed. To Americans certainly this report will naturally suggest unamiable reflections and perhaps unavoidably will prompt odious comparisons. Beside such a scene as this, hazing, with all its attendant horrors, dwindles into insignificance...
...remarks were inaudible, owing to the uproar. The ceremony of capping, performed by the lord justice general, as chancellor of the university, was the signal for a tremendous burst of cheering. The noise and confusion continued during the remainder of the ceremony; and on the part of the occupants of the platform the proceedings were carried through in dumb show...
...Yale is the only exponent and champion of college "muckerism," and as every college in New England and the vicinity has had occasion to suffer, and has loudly exclaimed against Yale's rowdyism and cowardly insolence, it would be an easy matter to institute united action on the part of all the colleges against a continuance of Yaleism...
...that Yale has become thoroughly imbued with the "thug" system, and it is now time for all colleges who discountenance such practises to unite in putting a stop to them. What I would advocate is a careful revision of the rules in all intercollegiate contests in which Yale takes part, so as to exclude all manifestations of "Yaleism." For instance, since Yale takes advantage of the rule requiring three warnings to send a man from the foot-ball field, adopt a rule requiring only one warning; thus the Yale rushers would not be allowed two warnings without punishment...