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...credit of these college organizations, as the Crimson curiously enough admits, that they are what they profess to be, in spite of favoritism and toadyism, though some of them are only so more or less imperfectly. Instances are demanded; they have supplied themselves, and cannot be wiped out by vehement editorials or indignant denials...
...think our correspondent in another column is perhaps too vehement in his denunciations of Yale and what in general he terms "Yaleism." We are ready to believe that there are gentlemen at Yale, in spite of last Saturday's performance, and that the general sentiment of that college, when the facts and general conduct of their team in the Harvard game are fully and fairly explained, will not uphold such practices as were then indulged in. It cannot be denied that the conduct of Yale's team is responsible for a feeling - and a very intense feeling - of hostility...
...Americans." The Philistines never looked upon him with any degree of favor, but now the very elect are beginning to disown him. The former friends of his college days now make haste to repudiate him, and their American correspondents are being duly warned of the "sham." Archibald Forbes, the vehement, who whilhom used to be so proud in his contempt of American buncombe and shams, now hangs his haughty head in humiliation of spirit, and privately pours out the vials of his wrath upon Oscar's devoted head. Poor Oscar, hard is thy fate indeed! When thou hadst thought...
...away to nothingness. Then I dressed myself, and, stepping out upon the upper balcony, watched the sunrise. As the colors warmed and deepened on the hills, and the broad ocean sparkled and shimmered, - so unlike that ghostly moon-swept sea of my dream, - this sense of oppression grew less vehement, as all such feelings must by daylight. I was almost recovered from the effects of the night, when I heard a light footstep, and then a pleasant voice...
Wright was always looked upon as a philosopher, but more practical than speculative. "His practical philosophy seemed equal to any emergency; and no strange and unexpected circumstances ever excited him to any more vehement expressions than the utterance of his sole exclamatory oath, `By Zeus!' uttered with a tone of unmingled surprise." With his chosen few, and with them only, he was a brilliant conversationalist...