Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...others are bad. Why did Oxford beat Harvard? Because she was stronger? Not a bit of it. Calm and unprejudiced critics have never held but one opinion, namely, because she rowed better and with more judgment. Why did Yale beat Harvard last year? For precisely the same reason. Nothing can be farther from me than to be personal in my remarks. The anguish of defeat is too great to be augmented by harsh words; but defeat, though unpalatable, is often salutary. Had Americans, and especially Harvard men, instead of deluding themselves with patriotic excuses, taken a wholesome lesson from their...
...time in playing cards for beer, and lately General Schenck has almost become my patron saint. 'Fine clothes and cigarette outside,' the writer in the Advocate says. There is one thing in my favor; I am not open to the fine-clothes charge, - though for a very good reason. But then I have smoked enough cigarettes to counterbalance that. I must reform. I will begin immediately." And I laid out plans for extensive readings on deep subjects, and determined to be a diligent searcher after truth...
...taxes upon the property must amount to quite a sum. He expects, no doubt, to be paid an excellent rate of interest upon all this investment, and, judging from the fact that the owner of Little's Block has an annual return of eight per cent, we see no reason to suppose that he will be disappointed. Now, if the College had built such a building upon some of the land lying useless in the yard, what would have been the result? They would have had the land for nothing, paid no taxes on the building, and pocketed at least...
...MORROW our Foot-Ball Team player New Haven. The result of the game players last year with Yale, and the triumphs at Montreal this fall, give every reason to hope that team will add another to its long list of victories. They should remember, however, that the greater the elevation the more severe the fall. Several of our best men are unable to play in this game, and the rest should carefully see to it that victory does not slip through their fingers from inadvertence, or from any too sanguine notion of a "soft thing." To underrate your opponent...
...Senior with four electives is required to have an average of fifty per cent on them all at the end of the year. This does not imply thorough work; and if any one desires to take up fewer things and do them more thoroughly, is there any rhyme or reason for denying his request...