Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would certainly seem that some other subject could be more profitably treated. The unfortunate freshman ball game at New Haven has already been thoroughly discussed, and it is hard to understand what is to be gained by a mere rehearsal of the very uninteresting story again. We should think that the college would want to forget the whole unfortunate affair as soon as possible. And as for the alleged apathy of the class in supporting its crew, it would seem that this lack of support is the result of ignorance of the financial condition of the management rather than...
...delay the game that five innings could not be completed. But after three innings had been thus played, Browne was pursuaded by ontside advice that it would be better to play the game as well as possible and after the third inning this plan was followed. This, I think will explain the score to all fair minded readers...
Great censure, I think is due to the manager of the freshman nine, who went to New Haven with so little money that he was dependent upon a Yale graduate to get his men back to Cambridge. During the few innings that were played one Harvard player was taken with the chills and was obliged to be driven immediately to the hotel...
...first there has been no doubt that it would be finally settled in this way. The reasons for such refusal are already well known. We do not object to a freshman race with Yale, but we can row only one race, and must row Columbia, and do not think that there is room enough on the New London course for three boats to race with equal advantage. It is to be hoped that by next year some more satisfactory settlement of this vexed question can be made...
...understand that several professors have recently stated that men in their courses must be prepared on the work of the first half year, leading men to think this preparation must be thorough and exhaustive. We cannot think that any professor means to examine them rigidly on the first half year, but only to ask, as has been the custom, a few general questions, if any, If such is the intention, we protest against it earnestly. If the custom in our college examinations had been to require a full knowledge in the final examinations of what has already been required...