Word: sortes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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MISGUIDED ENTHUSIASM.The Yale News declares that there is a more marked Harvard tendency at Andover than has been shown for many years. Undeceive yourself, O News! There was a time last winter when a few misguided youths had a sort of Harvard fever, but they seem to be getting bravely over it; and now the prospect looks as if we should send as many if not more men to Yale than in former years. - [Philippian...
...newspaper item says: "The so-called "Vincennes University" lottery has developed into the meanest sort of policy shops, which have sprung up in all the cities of the State. There are fourteen in Indianapolis, and it is estimated that they do a business of nearly $20,000 a week here alone, and $50,000 in the State. The police report an increase of 200 per cent. in juvenile thieving since the shops were opened...
...John T. Sargent, Edwin P. Seaver, Moorefield Storey, Morrill Wyman-11. The final decision of the question rests with the corporation. "Of the seven persons who form the corporation," says the Advertiser, "only two are thought to favor the medical education of women at Harvard." Co-education of any sort with us must now undoubtedly be but a dream for the dim future...
...least which is not a mere racing committee. But how much real vitality has the bicycle club at present? I know it is useless for me to harp upon this universal tendency at all our colleges to turn all possible sports to the interests of contests of some sort or other; and to speak of the impossibility of sustaining any interest among college men in any sport that is not perpetually bolstered up and galvanized into activity by this stimulus. The life of a college man as a college man, seems to be altogether made up of "contests" of some...
...York made a demagogical speech whose chief tenor was the condition of the American eagle, "with its beak filled with Lowell garbage." "But the American eagle had been aroused from her ignoble slumber, and the British lion must quail before her" - and further edifying eloquence of a like sort...