Word: rightly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...your precious volume? Your inquiries are met with ready promises of restoration ; he will bring it back, or he cannot just lay his hand upon it, or some one has borrowed it without leave and it will be sure to come back, and then you shall have it all right. All which things are tests of patience and good humor...
...contrary to precedent as well. Only last year there was a tie, but no one heard of an actual proposal for another game. We can see no possible claim that the Yale freshmen have now for urging the acceptance of their challenge, and we believe that '87 does entirely right in declining to play again...
...wholly superfluous luxuries. The mathematical and historical teaching is very deficient, and the whole system of instruction needs much improvement. There is a story told that a commissioner sent to inspect one of the schools where mathematics was somewhat lamely taught, asked the professor of mathematics how many right angles there are in a triangle. The professor after deliberating a moment or two asked permission to consult with his colleagues before answering. The next day the professor replied, not without pride, that it depended on the size of the triangle...
SENIOR FORENSICS.The second forensic will be due on Tuesday, Dec. 18, from 3 to 4.40, in Sever 1.-Subjects: 1. Is the minority more likely to be right than the majority? 2. Why is general over-production impossible? 3. How far can there be the same ethical standard for the conduct of states and of individuals? 4. The influence of Rousseau on the French Revolution. 5. Edmund Burke as orator and statesman...
...only this, we want eighty-seven to better the record of eighty-six and to turn out a nine that will score two victories over Yale. We are far from believing this impossible, and even consider the chances good provided only work is begun in time and in the right spirit. The material at hand in the class is undoubtedly as good as the average, if not better, and with proper coaching and plenty of enthusiasm, a good nine should be turned out in the spring. It is a disgrace that so many classes in succession have succumbed to their...