Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...heading "Giants get into gear;" and among other things it speaks of Capt. Mumford as being a "veritable Samson," and of Burgess and Yocum as being the "big fellers" of the eight. Accounts like this are very common among the daily papers here, and are read with great pleasure by the men at the quarters...
Although Oliver Wendell Holmes lives in Boston and is a Harvard man, Yale students would do well to "read. mark, and inwardly digest" that one of his many good sayings which states in substance,, "the three cardinal sporting virtues are to put up, pay up, and shut up." Although the final heat of the 100 yard run in the recent inter collegiate games was close, the facts published in our report of the meeting should be accepted as supporting the decision of the judges, and nothing more need be said. But several ardent Yalesains are still perturbed about the matter...
...different writers. As has been several times expressed at the lectures, the idea of the courses is to give men a knowledge of who the writers are, what period and school they belong to, and what their general work has been. With this foundation laid, students can, in their reading of after life, read more understandingly and also be able to choose authors better to their taste. A man is put upon a good footing with the literature of his own language. It is well to keep this in mind in choosing the courses for next year...
...annual appeal of the Class Day Committee is published on our first page. It should be read and heeded by every man in and out of the senior class. Of late years, the sights and excitements of class day, especially of class-day night, have been the source of attraction of a large part of the most disreputable element of Cambridge and Boston. The trouble originates with members of the college, and not outside. A large fence is erected at much cost, and policemen in uniform stand at the entrances to exclude the unauthorized from entering. It is the members...
...would like to say a few words to eighty-nine on the eve of the game with the Yale freshmen. In another column we publish a communication from a member of the class, which should be read by every man of eighty-nine, and which we trust will bear good fruit. The freshmen should be ashamed that such a complaint should be necessary to stir up those who, either from sheer laziness or from meanness, refuse to do everything in their power to bring victory to the nine. At least the freshmen should feel bound to make as good...