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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...George Lansing Taylor, '61, and honorary degrees will be conferred. In the evening there will be a reception given by the president, faculty and alumni in the great library hall on the college grounds, and all the college buildings will be lighted and open for inspection. All the alumni, whose addresses, are known have been invited to attend, and a large number are expected. - N. Y. Evening Post...
...heavy responsibility during the past few weeks, but though there was a strong sentiment against a triple league as at first proposed, they may be well assured of the approval and support of the college at large in their final decision. Also, those graduates most interested in base-ball, whose opinions and advice have been freely sought by the management, and have proved of the utmost value in this controversy, though they have been opposed to the new league, give assurances of their support to the management in the decision which they have deemed for the best interests...
...majority of those whose sentiments this letter voices, have, in the past, as undergraduates, felt the advantages of graduate assistance and support; so that we are compelled to submit this statement to the undergraduates in acknowledgment of their courtesy in asking our advice in the matter, and to relieve them of any feeling of tension in the relation of old to young Yale." - Yale News...
...delight fully poetic language this pathetic incident connected with the Persian poet's life. The choice of words is in many instances made with exceptional insight, as when he speaks of "jewels which had drunk of fire," or of the "dusty caravan," or again, "an old man, on whose brow the knots of pain were loosened now." No small charm is lent the rhythmic flow of the lines by the melodious oriental names used here and there. The poem is a very welcome departure from the abstruse and would-be metaphysical lines that fill the columns of college magazines...
...that used to rouse the enthusiasm and stimulate the nobler aspirations of those who were young in the first half of this century. How many causes have wrought this change any one can tell who breathes the commercial air of America. But there are still among us men in whose power it lies to stir our sluggish blood, to broaden our ever-narrowing field of higher enjoyment and to lead us into the sanctuaries of our literature. Is it then asking too much if we request that Mr. James Russell Lowell, an emeritus professor of Harvard, make his influence felt...