Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...third base. The others can hardly be rated better than from medium to fairly good. The third best all round man is Noyes, '89 (short-stop), who is expected to step up alongside of Stagg and Cross. Dann, '88 S., catcher; Brigham, '87, left field and Sheppard, '87, right field, are strong fielders, especially Dann; but this trio are several notches behind the first three in batting ability and base-running. Kellogg, '87S, and Osborn, '88S., change catchers, and change fielders, who played last year, are not rated very high. Kellogg has the making of an excellent outfielder, but could...
...communistic ownership of property gave way owing to the vigor of enterprise which characterizes modern life. Men saw that the problems of the race could never be worked out or worthy attainments in art an the sciences be reached under that regime. Personal ownership of land and the right to its yieldings became an immense stimulus to effort...
...Gladden took the middle ground between an extreme theory of individualistic ownership and that of communism. The community still retains its right to the land it occupies and when private ownership injures the general welfare the state should recall its lands...
...certain to make any boat go to the bottom, in rough water, and it was suggested that if the Yale 'varsity had been compelled to row on water that was at all choppy, her boat would have followed the example set her by the freshmen. Thus we have no right to say that the Thames course is too narrow for three boats, because last year one of them came to grief...
...freshmen should concur with the decision reached by Columbia. Whatever be the result of the deliberations of Monday night, that judgment must have good solid reasons behind it and must not be the outcome of prejudice or hasty and careless discussion. Our correspondent of to-day may be right in the main, but we thin that the position which he takes is narrow and somewhat superficial. Further comment on the subject we shall reserve until a later issue...