Word: whether
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that the 'Varsity Nine have begun their out-door practice, the question naturally arises whether we are to have a consolidated nine this spring to aid them in their work. All who remember the valuable assistance rendered by the second eleven to the foot-ball team last fall will not hesitate to recommend a similar scheme to the nine. The substitute "battery" of the 'Varsity furnishes a strong foundation for a consolidated nine, and by the interest shown in base-ball matters by the university at large we can safely guarantee that the second nine will not have...
...should be done to enable the university to help original research." To a certain extent the scheme of an American school at Athens, in which Harvard has so much interest at present, may be said to be a move towards the solution of this problem. But it is doubtful whether improvement is so much needed in this direction as in what is comparatively the elementary portion of the college work at Harvard. But that all these reforms and advancements are merely visionary we do not believe; they lie directly in the course of events, and are bound to come before...
...cannot agree with the Record in its opinion of the Tiger. We have our doubts whether Yale herself could produce so excellent and readable a paper in the humorous illustrated line. Are there not a few sour grapes around that have turned the Yale man's stomach...
...kind and cheering word for Eastern colleges. Now, is not the following from the Oberlin Review, really admirable and charitable? "Our Eastern exchanges are discussing the prejudice that exists in Western colleges against those in the East, and it becomes a question of interest to us whether it is not true that our notions of these Eastern institutions are not somewhat hazy, and whether we do not have an exaggerated idea of the freaks and follies of the students in the older colleges. There is but little doubt that we Westerners do not properly appreciate the work done at Yale...
...society deserve especial notice: 1-Its guiding principle will be common-sense, not fanaticism. 2-It will require no pledges from members. 3-It will not weary the students with constant appeals, but will assume that each student has sufficient intelligence and conscience to decide for himself whether or not to join the society...