Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...education is partly puts him out of court. So in our own day and country do all manner of governing men, who say deliberately, and greatly to their own disadvantage, that you get out of the thoroughly educated more efficient tools for all manner of work, including some very rough work - such as military engineering - than you can out of the merely experienced...
...Harvard statement of the case doubtless is its own best warrant. 'I know a man who had twins so much alike that the only way to tell them apart was to send one to Harvard and one to Yale. Then one came back a gentleman and one a Connecticut rough.' For native and ingenuous modesty this has its only parallel in the historic description by the Kentuckian of the guests at a Cincinnati dinner party which he had attended: 'There were present, sir, one Kentucky gentleman, whom you know, sir; one Huguenot from the Old South State; a Virginian - Poindexter...
...other journals that have widely copied the alleged witticism, do Harvard an unpardonable injustice in crediting to Harvard the story of the two twins who could only be distinguished by sending one to Harvard and one to Yale, "whence one came back a gentleman and one a Connecticut rough." The story did not originate at Harvard; its first appearance was in the Yale Record. To attribute its authorship to Harvard is to impute to her a spirit of discourtesy and arrogance which we are sure she has never yet exhibited. To explain the design of the Record in publishing...
...training-school for "muckers." We only claim that Yale plays a game of foot-ball which we consider adapted only to "muckers" (if the Spirit wants to use this word), and in so far only as Yale supports this style is she "muckerish." Still, at Rugby, England, an equally rough game is in vogue, yet no one characterizes Rugby men as muckers. That this style of game meets with the disapproval of the college world in general is shown by the recent changes in the foot-ball rules...
With characteristic scorn of all effeminacy and that severe manliness that is all her own, Yale now declares herself "heartily tired, both mentally and physically," of "Harvard's puerile remarks in regard to Yale's 'rough game.'" And now, gentlemen beware! do not touch upon the theme again; Yale is tired of it. Do not further seek to raise the anger of the New Haven lion. The News believes that its readers wish to hear no more on the subject, you know, and the Courant very properly "had hoped to be able to drop the subject of foot-ball...