Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...adopted by the board, and which will go into immediate effect. A committee of students to represent the college is, according to the plan, to be selected by the students themselves, for the purpose of holding conference with the faculty on various matters of importance. It is needless to say this plan has been desired by the students for some time, and when the members of the committee have been chosen and the project is inaugurated we believe it will accomplish much in doing away with the misunderstandings which often arise between students and faculty. It is often wiser...
...Princetonian has had little to say about the Yale-Princeton game, but the angry article in the Yale News of last Thursday seems to call for an answer; Yale knows how strongly Princeton desires to meet her on the field, but Yale must not trade on that desire so far as to think of bettering her position...
...Princetonian of the 17th appeared a satirical and ill-natured article entitled "An additional endowment for Harvard." We are happy to say that it was at once disclaimed by the Princetonian board in a telegram and a most courteous letter to THE CRIMSON. We can assure the Princetonian that we should be as unwilling as they to see any rupture in the traditional friendship and that we accept their explanation as finally and entirely satisfactory...
...delivered by the Rev. Phillips Brooks must have given great pleasure. The change in the ordinary method of conducting college prayers is one to be profoundly desired by all who have the religious interests of Harvard at heart. We think we voice the sentiment of the college, when we say that a few earnest words addressed to the students every morning not only renders the service more attractive, but must have a powerful influence over the students. It is a fact that the ordinary chapel service repeated morning after morning does tend to become monotonous. But if we are privileged...
When Dr. Holmes had given his muse full play and the muse had refused to say anything more, Dr. McCosh quietly took his departure and boarded the next train for Princeton. He was as indignant as a Scotchman who thinks he has cause to be generally is, and when his friends and fellow-workers at the college heard the version of all that had happened at Harvard's celebration they were indignant, too, and extremely glad that Dr. McCosh had absented himself from the banquet that was designed to act as a sort of capstone to the celebration...