Word: respects
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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When the Pope heard of the assassination in Dublin he sent instructions to the Irish bishops to request the clergy to express from their pulpits execration of the crime, and exhort the faithful to respect the law of the land...
...forcible statement of the condition of instruction at the college at that time. He says: "Educated in the old manner, and whipped, from our earliest days, into an acquaintance with the languages, mythologies and histories of the ancient nations, we have been obliged to remain in utter ignorance in respect to most other departments of literature." And in another place he indicates again the reaction that was going on during the early portion of this century against the frigid classicism of the preceding century. He says: "We seldom style the moon Diana, even in our verses; have dispensed with...
Yale seems to be much disgruntled over the growing success of Harvard's and Princeton's "funny" papers and her own sterility in this line. The Yale Lit. says, enviously : "We cannot, of course, ever hope to rival Harvard in this respect. She is too excruciatingly funny. But in our own way we may in time be able to publish something worthy of the name of wit. This hope, we think, is justified by the News' Wednesday supplement and the "log" items in the Courant and Record." That strange delusion that Yale men cherish that the News supplements are really...
...blue material, with a gorgeous maize tassel. It has a very feudal look about it, and reminds us much of the head-coverings worn by cardinals in the middle ages. It suits its purpose, however, excellently, and is decidedly original in every respect...
Expressions of seemingly complete satisfaction with the present system of compulsory chapel have recently appeared in some of the college papers. The writers seem to assume that the removal of the more objectionable features of the service, brought about this year, and the greater interest and respect aroused thereby, have also caused the removal of all grounds for objection to the system on theoretical grounds that had been previously urged. We do not believe this to be the case. The improvements in the method of conducting, and the changes in the hour for holding, the service have indeed been complete...