Word: proved
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...should support the nine in the coming Dartmouth games, as they will prove very important...
...contest has now narrowed down to Yale in the lead, and Harvard second, with three games yet to play. It is absolutely necessary, if we propose to wrest the leading place from Yale, that both the games with Dartmouth should be won by our nine. In case Harvard does prove victorious, we have the chance of beating the Yale team a week from Saturday and tying with it for first place. Such a fortunate combination of circumstances as this would afford us an opportunity of winning a final game from our New Haven rivals, and so of gaining at length...
...secret society system of Yale. In this article the writer takes a firm stand in favor of the present system, and invokes the public to judge whether "when the good name of the university is draggled in the mire by her own sons, these reformers should be held to prove their damaging charges, or else, be silenced with the deserved contempt which awaits men who have not hesitated intentionally or unintentionally to compromise the innocent." These somewhat strong expressions have been evoked by the increasing frequency with which the merits of a dark and mysterious collection of clubs such...
...fine or imprisonment through legal technicalities, thus avoiding welldeserved punishment. During the same year an anti-senior society paper was started and conducted vigorously and successfully. Recently an elaborate pamphlet appeared, written by an alumnus, formerly a member of each society from year to year, who tried to prove that the system was pernicious, and ought to be abolished. These facts show the state of affairs, and it is not surprising that under such circumstances considerable adverse criticism of Yale's societies should arise...
...complete. It is only begun. What does "Commencement" mean? We, at best, only can lay at college a respectable foundation upon which to build in after years. Neither specializing nor superficiality will accomplish this. A good, sound, sensible basis upon which we can rely in after life will prove of the greatest advantage...