Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...benefit of several correspondents who have written to the CRIMSON on the subject of the plank walks, we will say that we owe the overseers, and not the faculty, thanks that our prayers have been answered at last...
...always come in first anyhow, how can anything be said in opposition to the proposed league of Harvard, Yale and Princeton in base-ball. These colleges always lead, and one or the other of them wins the championship, and if once a league by themselves, public interest, not to say collegiate too, will concentrate on their three nines most naturally. Let this once be done and the base-ball matches between Harvard, Yale and Princeton will be what the New London race and the New York foot-ball match already are. Then and not till then college base-ball will...
...only the feather-weight, but also the light-weight contests. A number of arguments have been urged, to be sure, against having any boxing on a Ladies' Day, the chief of which was that no lady could with propriety witness the sport. Such an argument is, we may say, puerile; for a feather-weight match properly conducted is merely a display of dexterity and grace, attributes which our fair friends are especially quick to admire, and with justice as well. If any lady, however, is so weak as to be frightened or affected in any way by a contest which...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON : Now that the Yale freshmen have refused, and I may almost say properly so, the challenge of Ninety to row on the Charles, after the race at New London, is there not an alternative...
...former is but the expression of a real kind of literary attempt, and is, as we know, the motive which gave life to our old "Advocate," and the latter is a necessary condition to the success of a paper. From this answer we gain no warrant to say that college papers should be filled by anything else than matter written by students. But we are told that we all like to read articles by our professors and by well-known outside writers. True, but we can read such things in any periodical of the day; we don't need...