Word: thinge
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...championships. These cups are to be marked "Foot-Ball; '89, 10; '88, 4," and then at the opposite part of the cup the names of the members of the team. This seems to be the fairest way in this particular case, and also the best thing to be done to let it be understood in the future that no championship exists unless all teams play...
...consequently cannot have the weight of immediate denial. Glad as we should be to consider the position of the News tenable, we cannot do so, nor can we unite with it in considering the reported words of the Yale captain as "a petty matter." At Harvard such a thing would be called not petty but gigantic boorishness...
...been our policy to aid the students in every possible way by publishing notices of their meetings and other notices; and it is but a poor return to compromise us by such utterly idiotic practices. We appreciate a good joke as much as anyone, but there is such a thing as going too far, and we hope the offense will not be repeated...
...snobbery is entirely foreign to the tone of the Harvard spirit, it could easily be done away with without injuring that spirit. The only thing, however, that can accomplish the overthrow of snobbery is a reform in the general sentiment of the college, an awakening in the whole college of a sense of the common good. It seems that the tendency of the times is already in that direction. To that end we add our prayers...
...seems rather a melancholy thing that a regular 'Professor of Journalism' in one of our universities, such as the Hon. Charles E. Fitch, editor of the Rochester Democratic, is, should have to apply for the place of clerk to the State Senate in order to secure "a vacation from the wearing duties of his present [editorial] position.' Yet such is the tale told us by his friend the Ogdenburg Daily Journal. In the first place, it is rather odd that service in the Senate clerkship should be to all intents and purposes a vacation, for it draws a salary...