Word: suits
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...blue and white, representing respectively Yale, Princeton, Harvard and Columbia. That the game played was highly interesting and exciting no one will deny, but that it was foot-ball, as foot-ball should be played, we cannot admit. No doubt the game of Saturday was just the thing to suit the majority of the spectators. It was a regular series of wrestling matches and fist fights, interspersed at times with fine play of foot-ball. We can reiterate the remark of a spectator who stood by us, which was : "That's awful rough work, rougher than I've ever seen...
...university already held property exceeding $3,000,000, the limit fixed by its charter. At that time the university, according to the testimony of Treasurer Wiliams, held property to the amount of about $2,800,000, exclusive of about 275,000 acres of Western lands. The suit, however, will be bitterly contested by the university at every point, and may be kept in the courts ten or twenty years, or even until the death of the plaintiff. The university, however, will not be bandrupt even if the entire...
...diurnally-esteemed contemporary, the Yale News, congratulates itself and the college in having secured the services of a Yale man, with Yale ideas, as professional trainer. This use of the term "Yale ideas" implies what we have always thought, that a Yale man, with Yale ideas, was suit generous. Yes, it is a rarity in the line of professional trainers, and Yale deserves to be congratulated on her good luck. Don't be selfish, dear friends. If there really is some magic charm in these Yale ideas, do tell us what it is, so that we too may labor...
...into the society building and lind onc's tennis net gone is about as annoying a thing as can happen to a man, and it happens quite frequently Men who own no net, go into the building and pick out one to suit themselves. Then the owner of the net which took their fancy comes along, and not finding his net is elther obliged to give up play altogether or spend the greater part of the afternoon hunting it up, or else take another man's net, thus handing down the annoyance. Those men who, owning no net of their...
...accordance with the tendency of the French to throw overboard everything of historic development to suit some rationalistic theory, the faculties of their universities have logically become purely institutes for instruction-special schools, with definite regulations for the course of instructions developed and quite distinct from those institutions which are to further the progress of science such as the College de France, the Jardin des Plantes, and the Ecle des Etudes Superieures. The faculties are entirely separated from one another, even when they are in the same town. The course of study is definitely prescribed, and is controlled by frequent...