Word: rightly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Haven to accommodate all the freshmen who wish to "pipe their tuneful lays," there is not enough ground about the tree to admit of the exercises being carried through successfully. This year there are almost a hundred more men than last year in college who have a right to go to the tree, and it is probable that in time the classes will grow still larger. That a change must be made sooner or later is evident. The question naturally arises as to who must suffer. The choice lies between the graduates and the freshmen. But to exclude the former...
...dispatch from Hanover, N. H., says: The suspended sophomores still refuse to tell the faculty where they were on the night of the 17th. The faculty remain firm. Early on Sunday morning the village was aroused by a tremendous explosion. Some hurried to the bank, but found everything right there. An explanation was furnished when daylight came. A large cannon which the students had drawn from West Lebanon, a distance of four miles, during the night, was standing near Reed Hall. On Sunday evening it was taken home by the authorities, but before morning found its way here again...
...starting line shall be moved down from the present starting line the distance of sixty (60) feet toward the finish line, and shall be at right angles to the central line of buoys. Each boat shall be provided with a metal staff or rod eighteen (18) inches high, carrying a flag measuring nine (9) by five (5) inches, of the color of its university. Such rod shall be fixed perpendicularly at the stem of the shorter boat, and on the longer boat at a distance forward from the centre of said boat equal to half the length of the shorter...
President Eliot was followed by Mr. Evarts. "I am confirmed," he said, "in an opinion which, as a Yale man, I early formed in regard to Harvard - that there was no college in the country whose graduates improved so much after leaving college. We have a right to be proud of Yale, since the great compliment which Lord Bacon, in a familiar passage, prophetically paid us. Lord Bacon, as you all know, says: 'Eating makes the full man, drinking the ready man, but to have been educated at Yale College, a wise man.' Now, at Cambridge, they attempt the impossible...
...this time an attempt was made to form a second team, but there is no evidence that the idea was carried into practice. About this time a wise move was the payment of $25 toward the cost of the net in the gymnasium, whereby the lacrosse team secured the right, next after the ball nine, to use the cage...