Word: references
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bumptiousness" of college students, must lament over the present quiet and lamb-like behavior universally displayed by collegians. We pity the poor man and vainly wonder to what occupation he has turned his marked talents to gain a livelihood. He, alas, has missed one beautiful opportunity. We refer to the recent hazing affair at Trinity, which he suffered to pass by unnoticed, and at which he might have hurled, with great effect, the bolts of anathema from his elevated and important seat, and, by a vigorous two-column editorial, have thus once more appeased his fastidious sense of decorum...
...Yale freshmen have the prestige of former victories to back them. But there is one advantage that we have given them from year to year for which there is no necessity. I refer to the habit of playing the first game at New Haven. Ever since '74's freshman year, with three exceptions, every class has played its first game in New Haven. Why is this? Every one knows the advantage of playing on one's grounds. At New Haven, the Yale men are of course accustomed to their grounds and are surrounded by their own friends, before whom they...
...long noticed, and which I must at last speak out about. Above all the cries for plank side-walks and for better ventilation, this one calls loudly for redress. That men have been patient of it so long shows how long-suffering, how unindependent the college student is. I refer, sir, to the glaring evil - yea, insult - to every Harvard man of having the covers of all blank books for examination purposes colored blue. Blue, sir, the color of our rivals on many a gloomy field of war! Blue! the flaunting color of the base cravens who train and practise...
...been wasted, nor that the student who has confined his mind to one particular course of study has the better education. The man who leads a mercantile life after graduation has by a liberal education formed, as it were, an index in his mind, to which he can refer. A large field of thought has been opened to him, each separate branch of which he has not pursued to any great degree, but with such slight knowledge as he has gained, he knows where to refer when any subject is under consideration. To the ordinary business man the fields...
...very smartly because we say "to the manner born," instead of "to the manor born" (we suppose). "Such is culture," it says. The Era is, we fear, a little too previous. We do not care to discuss questions of Shakespearean text-interpretations in these columns, and we will only refer the Era to the discussions of the best critics on this matter, and it will see that we have plenty of justification (besides all common sense, etc.,) to sustain us in this reading...