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Word: think (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...challenge received a short time ago from the Harvard Cricket Club will probably be declined. There is no cricket organization in existence in college now, and to organize and support one would detract from the interest taken in the existing organizations. It is probable that the students will think it best to make sure of retaining Yale's present championships before they go hunting after more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 12/14/1887 | See Source »

...seedy coat or is unpolished in his manners, even though he has worked side by side with them in the laboratory or the class room for months, and may have given evidence of good, solid, manly qualities. In the majority of cases the man so snubbed will gradually, I think, rise above the contempt or condescension of his high-toned classmates, if he is a man of real worth; but think of the hard and bitter experience he must first go through, even if he possesses only the average amount of sensitiveness. I think the orator of the senior class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 12/13/1887 | See Source »

...chest, apparently new, from which the phial of nuxvomica was missing. This was immediately found in the center of the room entirely emptied of its contents. There was also on the desk an encyclopedia opened at the letter H, and on the top of the page was written "I think I must be crazy." These were the only words which could be found having a direct bearing on the cause of his death. The young man's parents, who live in New York, were at once notified of their son's suicide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Death of Henry Jacob Powell. | 12/12/1887 | See Source »

...regard was paid to the truth-but we let it pass by in silence for the sake of that good feeling which we joined heart and soul in trying to bring about. The manly spirit as displayed by our athletic teams and by the college in general, we think is quite on a "level" with that displayed by Cambridge representatives and the feeling against "muckerism" is fully as strong.-Yale News...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 12/10/1887 | See Source »

...hope I have made my position clear. I do not condemn Harvard's social system. On the contrary I think it most excellent. But I do condemn that pernicious, though temporary, outgrowth of it-snobbery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Extract from Senior Class Dinner Oration. | 12/9/1887 | See Source »

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