Word: signs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...geology twice a week to the juniors. Our own professor conducts a "quiz" afterward, which is dreaded beyond measure. To a looker-on it is quite amusing to watch the progress of a recitation. The professor's face is immovable; she never utters a word nor makes a sign, but with stony eyes gazes at the poor victim, who blushes, stammers, becomes very much frightened, and at last sits down totally exhausted...
...grew pale as he left the hut; but by no other sign did she betray the anguish of her mind. When she was alone she sat down to think over the whole situation calmly...
...manhood, and discern no sign...
YALE has at last a book of undergraduate poetry, compiled from the columns of its biweeklies and monthly. It is, of course, a hopeful sign that such a book should be published; but we cannot very heartily congratulate our sister college upon its appearance. The average excellence is distinctly below the Harvard standard; the book will not for a moment compare with the "Verses from the Harvard Advocate," published a few years since, and many humorous or sentimental poems that have appeared in our papers since. And we say this in all candor, not in prejudice or undue self-praise...
...played this year; and on this account it needs the support of the College more than ever. We understand that the managers have placed a book at Bartlett's, in which all those who can possibly go down to New Haven on the 28th are requested to sign their names. If a sufficient number signify their intention of going, arrangements will be made for reduced rates and a special train which will leave for New Haven on the morning of the 28th and return immediately after the game. We do not see why two hundred cannot back up the Nine...