Word: rather
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...consideration of the race, while the rest of the college is urgent for such reconsideration. Whatever may be the views of a certain portion, and a small portion, of Ninety, the class at large is certainly fair-minded enough to be willing to give another hearing to the rather persistent claims of Yale for admission. But we cannot do this without a class meeting, and in the calling of a class meeting, we are not laws unto ourselves. If those who oppose the admission of Yale are as confident as they claim to be in the force of their arguments...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: Like your correspondent of Thursday, I, too, did not hear Prof. Laughlin's lecture on "Political Economy and Christianity." I have, however, logical head enough to see his own inconsistencies rather than the so-called ones of Prof. Laughlin...
...ready and began a succession of tremendous heaves. The '90 team rose as one man, but sat down again with six inches of rope on the side of '88. Balch did not give them time to breathe, but continued heaving. The audience began to think the performance was rather amusing. At the end of the five minutes '88 had taken in thirty-nine inches of rope. The freshmen made a good fight but "struck a snag," as was predicted some two weeks since. The teams were as follows: '88 - Anchor, Balch; 3, Baldwin; 2, Crocker; 1, Pease. '90 - Anchor, Sturgis...
...team, may by careful work develop into better players than some members of the regular nine. As an athletic venture for the improvement of the base-ball players, the new scheme will undoubtedly prove a success, but as a financial investment the outlook is not so encouraging. It is rather difficult to see how people will pay to see a second nine from Yale College play with some outside club when it is perfectly easy to witness a game between the regular nine and a rival college team for the same price...
Well, it is rather hard to commit one's self on such a proposition as the foregoing. How would the league sound? It might sound all right one way and then again it might not; for instance to a student from that cradle of athletics - the University of Pennsylvania - it might sound all right. There is melody in the name Pennsylvania; then, too, the derivation of the word is classic to a greater or less degree, and yet after all it seems as if a short one-syllabled name that we can think of supplies the place of Pennsylvania very...