Word: talking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is material in the University for a gun club that would be invincible against other college teams. There is considerable talk about challenging the Harvard club. It is suggested that a match might be arranged to be shot by telegraph. - Cornell...
Last, there is some talk of a second race, after the Harvard-Columbia race, with the Yale freshmen. This is manifestly out of the question. For our crew would be out of condition after a hard race with Columbia, to meet a few days later a crew of fresh men whether the race be a long or short one. No doubt Yale would welcome such a match; for every advantage would be in favor of its crew...
...talk at present about training the Yale crew of 1887 in these zero days when skating and tobogganing are about the only sports that hold sway, seems rather absurd. Heretofore the candidates for the crew have practised during the latter part of the winter on hydraulic machines in which they went through the motions very well and derived many valuable points. But it was found "too stagey" and not in all respects like real water, and to obviate this difficulty there hasbeen constructed a tank which is to be filled with real Lake Saltonstall or rather Lake Whitney water...
...Harvard, methods of furnishing information are pretty fully developed. In May an elective paphlet is issued, which announces everything that is to be taught in the college during the following year. Consultations with instructors about all courses are frequent. That most effective means of distributing information, the talk of students, goes on unceasingly, With time, perhaps, means may be devised for informing a student more largely what he is choosing. The fullest information is desirable. And now granting that a student has started with good intentions and is well informed about the direction where profit lies, still have...
Then, because she had to punish some of her boys as all good mothers must, people made a big talk over it and said they were all badly brought up. Not content with all this, now within a few days they say that she shows favoritism in giving her boys pocket-money, that she doesn't give some of them enough to eat and that although she has plenty of money, she won't build an addition to the house, but allows the boys to be crowded out, to sleep in the shed or at the neighbor...