Word: takings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annual alumni dinner of Yale will take place in Boston on Wednesday, February 2. Among those who have signified their purpose to be present are Gov. Ames, Lieut. Gov. Brackett, President Dwight, and Mr. Chauncey Depew...
...speak so much for college life, but he could testify for all after life that no social pleasure could ever be hindered by the non use of liquors. A man who doesn't drink in college is like a man who is restricting his expenses somewhat in order to take a life insurance policy. The greatest claim to be urged for abstinence is that the student will enter the struggle of life with one handicap the less...
...said that there were two schools of temperance, the wet and the dry. He preferred the dry, as did Dickens' young lady on board the vessel in the case of the fifth lover who wouldn't jump overboard to save her, because he was the most practical. In taking a stand against liquor there were too heresies to be met. The personal heresy, where people of high standing used liquor moderately and had it on their sideboards for all; and the heresy in regard to license. The only way in which the terrible power of the liquor organizations...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - We hear much of the energy with which Yale men support their college teams in each and every branch of athletics; and contrasts, invidious to Harvard, tho' inexact are often drawn between this college and Yale. I have even heard it said that we take too little interest in our teams, that our athletic enthusiasm is not remarkable, that we are - oh! blackest crime, indifferent...
...should be full of reverence for the divine truth, and no self-conceited sceptic or enemy, with a mind open to conviction and a heart large enough for that thankfullness and love, and every Christian virtue. He should, in a word, be ready to take the lessons which the common mother reads to him from all her past life, and give them their own transforming and elevating power with in his soul. - Boston Herald...