Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would like to say a few words to eighty-nine on the eve of the game with the Yale freshmen. In another column we publish a communication from a member of the class, which should be read by every man of eighty-nine, and which we trust will bear good fruit. The freshmen should be ashamed that such a complaint should be necessary to stir up those who, either from sheer laziness or from meanness, refuse to do everything in their power to bring victory to the nine. At least the freshmen should feel bound to make as good...
...regard to the small attendance at the Brown game on Tuesday, we would say that for the students to manifest such an evident lack of interest in a championship game is a disgrace to the college. What if the Brown game did come during the examination period? If the game had been with Yale or Princeton, no amount of examinations would have prevented the students turning out in a body to witness it: and to show such a want of enthusiasm as was shown in Tuesday's game is a discourtesy to Brown which we cannot pass over in silence...
...side of the co-educators, and the final result cannot be mistaken. This action of Columbia will, without doubt, exercise a profound influence upon those who oppose her policy. But any educator who to-day defiantly closes his eyes and ears to a truth which all he may say or do will yet be heard and recognized, does not merit the name 'educator." If an opportunity to gain an education means an opportunity offered to men only, if the word college shall be allowed to stand as significant to the male gender only, if girls because they are girls...
Some surprise - not to say dissatisfaction - was caused over the difficulty of the examination in French...
...them and producing something better than either. He was, moreover, to rig the boat and adapt it to the stroke determined upon, and in other ways make himself useful to the crew. For this he was to receive $25 a week. Cook and Cowles soon began to say that Chainey was incompetent. Cook, however, returned to Philadelphia, where he remained three weeks, when he received a letter from Captain Cowles, which stated that things were going from bad to worse under Chainey's coaching; that the men were demoralized and discouraged, and that unless something was done right away...