Word: roote
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...committee appointed by the senior class of Yale to obtain a suitable class ivy have succeeded in getting a root from the famous ivy growing on the old castle of Henry IV, at Pau in France...
...Faculty on Athletics to send out a second circular urging them to answer the questions which were sent to them a week ago. Such thought-lessness on the part of the men is absolutely inexcusable. When the faculty is making an earnest effort to get at the root of the athletic question, the least that men can do is to co-operate with it fully and frankly. We think there are few students for whom this vital question does not have some interest; if there are any for whom it has none, shame for the fact ought to make them...
...said, have witnessed a relapse in religious enthusiasm. Recovery will come from the impact of strong minds on men outside, and of this recovery there are signs. Men, in the past, lost their enthusiasm naturally, for there was a need of material stock in which Christianity could take root. The peculiar enthusiasm of his own generation, the speaker said, was rather political or purely intellectual than religions. Of this, war and the doctrine of evolution were the great causes. But with the coming generation there is to be a change. The problems which will confront them will be human problems...
...freshmen trying for positions in the 'Varsity are McBride, a heavy batter, Dalzell, candidate for change pitcher, Poole, second base in the Andover nine last year, Root and N. McClintock. Probably all these men will remain in training until the Easter recess...
...time. The names of the candidates are as follows: Cheney, Forsythe, Knox, Dunnell, Shaw, Wright, Cushing, W. McClintock, Hedges, R. Foster, Greer, Barnes, Childs, Young, Twombly, Sacket, Treadwell, Hall, St. John, N. E. Simms, Guy, Hopkins, Sears, Gage, Loomis, Herod and Gregory, '91, S. Besides these, N. McClintock, Poole, Root, Dalzell, and Dickerman, '91, S., are training with the University nine. The men are an unusually good set, and the competition for positions will he uncommonly close. F. C. Huntington, who was recently elected temporary captain, is one of the most promising candidates, and judging from his past record...