Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unfortunate that so many seem unable to discuss Yale affairs without indulging in ungenerous allusions to Harvard. Your correspondent 'Anti-Revolutionist' errs if he supposes that criticisms upon Yale can be answered successfully by slurs upon the university at Cambridge. This question why 'the critics who have so much to say of the Yale corporation do not open their fire on the government at Harvard,' is easily answered. The critics are graduates of Yale, members of the body which elects some of its governors. They hold no such position toward Harvard, and might justly be accused of impertinence if they...
...Memorial, for the interest he manifested in the Thanksgiving dinner. The success attained, in the arrangement of details of planning, cooking and serving, was due to his voluntary interest and personal superintendendence, not to any formal orders from the Board of Directors as some of the Boston papers seem to have supposed...
...every one who knows what a grind is, least of all the grind himself. If an intermittent cloister-like life of study is what distinguishes the grind, of what use is his life? It is a preparation for greater things coming after, of course. But some grinds do not seem to have any after, except after midnight and high marks. Archimedes was the very Bayard of grinds. But he ground himself into the grave. I remember once hearing that there are grinds at New Haven who are regularly summoned to the Yale "U. 5" for taking too many courses...
...usual places. Never before has the volume been so promptly published, and because it appears thus early it will be all the more valuable to the college. After an examination of an advance copy, obtained by the CRIMSON through the courtesy of the editor, the following matters seem worthy of note...
...almost valueless. Of last year's crew, five men are now in college who intend to row this year. Mumford, Keyes, Brooks, Burgess and Colony. These men are all '87, while Alexander, Remington, and Ayer of last year's substitutes are also '87. At first glance it would seem as if '87 would be almost able to row the 'varsity crew as her representative in the class races. There are a number of last year's successful freshman crew who are trying for positions on the 'Varsity, Adams, Porter, Butler, Bradlee and Wood, ex-captain of the '88 crew...