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Word: rightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...must, unless blind, witness every day, in defiance of the fact that in so doing he stigmatizes not only himself, but his fellow-students and the faculty, maintains the truth of the quoted statement, he must do so not from a spirit of justice, not from a love for right and truth, but for reasons best and only known to himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/12/1885 | See Source »

...lose heart, attributing a large part of the score to the wind. At first it seemed as if this was a poor excuse, for the moment the ball was put in play it went down towards the freshmen's goal, and soon eighty-six had the ball down right under eighty-nines' goal posts. Fisk tried for a goal from the field, but he failed to estimate the power of the wind properly, and the attempt was unsuccessful. This gave the freshmen the kick-off at the twenty-five yard line. The ball was given to Morse, who carried...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foot Ball. | 11/11/1885 | See Source »

...Yale Banner is out. As a whole it is up to if not better than last year's. There are fewer pages than last year, but nothing of importance is omitted. The Lit board publishes it this year instead of selling the right to produce it, and they may well be satisfied with the result...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/10/1885 | See Source »

...approach this subject, but necessity is even more powerful than imprudence. One of the notably weak spots of the yard is that beautiful, sloping, inclined, hollowedout, well watered and ever-mud-adorned stretch of path from Weld to the library. We will not claim that we have here a right to use the rather sweeping term, "Scylla and Charybdis," but that does not alter the fact that a wet day causes this particular piece of walk to resemble closely the famous bog in which the victim sank deeper the more he struggled. If the college could furnish to the passer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/10/1885 | See Source »

...matter of surprise, that becomes indignation, that any man can have the chic to ask for rooms. We have supposed that all the men in college knew well that Class Day was Senior's Day, and that no underclassmen, by custom, by courtesy, by honor, has any right in any way to hinder seniors from getting all the pleasure from that day that is possible. Because seniors are the hosts on class-day and underclassmen only guests, it is very proper that only seniors should extensively entertain their friends, as long as the rooms for entertainment are so limited...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/9/1885 | See Source »

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