Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...members of the freshman eleven have made the mistake which most freshman teams make sooner or later in their career. They have fallen into the delusion that they are practicing each day for their own amusement and do not seem to realize that they are to turn out a team that must meet the Yale freshmen. Because the error is a common one, it is not the less blamable It is for the freshmen to decide at once whether they will begin to make an earnest effort to win the coming contest by hard practice each day, or whether they...
...office. The injustice of the system is intensified by the different standards of the various instructors, one says that his D equals 74 per cent., and another that it is equivalent to 65. No temporary palliatives will suffice; a radical change is needed, and it will come sooner or later. The present arrangement is not in harmony with our elective system and it must be altered. A number of the instructors are going abroad this year, let the faculty ask them to investigate other systems and report, and meanwhile give the system of doing without examinations a fair trial here...
...Harvard than to-day. The tone of morals is exceptionally healthful. Public sentiment in college is on the side of sincere and manly piety. The old practice of appointing a single preacher and compelling the students to hear him had to be given up at Harvard, as it will sooner or later have to be at Yale and every other real university." The sober and appreciative spirit manifested in this editorial is very refreshing when compared with the frivolous and sensational articles which too often find their way into the public prints of Boston...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- The announcement of ball games should be posted sooner than they are. Posters for the Trinity game were not out until about four o'clock Friday afternoon, and the consequence was that some men who did not remember the schedule supposed there was to be no game Saturday and for that reason made other engagements. Others, who were familiar with the schedule, supposed that as the game was not announced it had been declared off, and at least one person was put in a disagreeable position by inviting friends to the game and promising to send word...
...impressions. As we grow older our perceptions become duller, and our lives are less easily molded. Wax must be stamped when it is warm. Whenever a man raises an ideal late in life, he always regrets the possibility of achievement which might have been his, had he awakened sooner. If we begin early to follow the example of Christ, the goodness which at first comes by reflection will become instinctive...