Word: wente
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hall. He won applause by saying: "How much you Yale student-athletes have done on the field and wave," and suggesting that some of them might be subjects for statues illustrating strength and manly beauty. After the lecture Oscar tired out the students, who waited to receive him, and went off unmolested and unnoticed, smoking a Connecticut Havana cigarette of the American Renaissance...
...seen his picture, and think he's horrid ugly. He looks like a Yale senior does when he asks you to waltz - sort of frightened and remorseful. But I'm just going to tell you of something that happened at the theatre the other evening. I went with my Cousin Harry (he's my second cousin), and a great, big, horrid man leaned over and asked me if I wouldn't take my Gainsboro' hat off at the end of the act so that he could hear the orchestra; he said he'd given up trying to see anything...
...that was unreasonable, and could not be legally enforced, as its tendency was to abridge the freedom of thought and action of individuals. The decision of Judge Vinton was delivered on Saturday morning, the entire bar being present to hear his rulings. The opinion was quite lengthy, and went over all the ground, and was replete with quotations from decisions bearing on the subject. The gist of the decision may be gleaned from the following summing...
...Norman, who recently left the Law School, is not Mr. Henry Norman, author of the Greek play, as has been stated. Mr. Henry Norman went to England several weeks...
...wonder what had become of the sophomores and freshmen who were not invited to this reception. They did not stand on the upper floors, looking longingly over the balustrades at the scene below. No, they went like good children to the gymnasium, where they had a little character party, most of them dressing as children and nursery maids. Dancing and games effectually killed the time, and without doubt the "children" had a much merrier evening than their older sisters at their dignified reception...