Word: statement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There appeared in a recent issue of one of the prominent magazines the following statement : "We are well aware of the fact that there are many men who get learning at college without culture, and that there are many men outside of the colleges who have, with comparatively little accurate learning, a great deal of valuable culture." Without pretending to urge the "sweetness and light" plea, an intimate relation with the short-comings of college life leads us to inquire into the reasons of the fact above quoted. Strange and incredible as it may seem, there are men in good...
...address to the students, which we print in another column, is by far the most satisfactory action that body has taken this year. It is almost always the case that any disagreement between faculty and students is largely owing to a misunderstanding of each other's position. Such a statement as this last on the part of the faculty cannot fail to have a good effect, as it shows that their position is a just one. The main body of the students are no less anxious than the faculty that the good name of the college be preserved...
...mile course on New Haven harbor has been re-surveyed and found nearly a fifth of a mile too long. The crews which have been rowing against time feel relieved at the statement...
...account of the Yale-Brown game says: "There was a great deal of excitement throughout the game, but not much money was up, excepting some that was bet by Harvard men who came down to back Brown and lost." It is rather surprising to find such a statement as this in the Herald, one which, even if it were true, would be in very bad taste, when in reality it is utterly without foundation...
...share of the receipts of the game at Springfield would not have been as fair for one team as the other. Yale refused to play the game at Cambridge, but accepted the Boston base ball grounds, where the game was played, and where, contrary to the statement in the editorial, one half of their travelling expenses was paid...