Word: wishes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...whole, it is best to take any newspaper slander as a delicately concealed compliment to our importance. If the New York World tells entertaining fibs about Yale, it is merely the New York World's way of saying that Yale is powerful and renowned, and that people wish to know all they can about her. Harvard too has often been flattered in this manner. She and Yale can glow with common pride...
...spared, and that the efforts will lead to success. And in the near future when Yale may boast of her extraordinary athletic facilities we will look for a list of long contested and well earned victories won by the crimson, despite the advantages enjoyed by the blue. We wish Yale the highest success in her undertaking...
...connection with the editorial which appeared in our last issue, and which defended the application of the term "'varsity" to our college teams, we wish to offer the following brief account of the origin of the word in question. The word "'varsity" comes to us from the English universities. It was first used on the "bumping-course" at Oxford, where the "bargemen" dubbed the Oxford University eight, "the 'Varsity." This word was speedily adopted by the college men at large, and before long it made its appearance in America...
...only was the public often made to believe that a Yale team was weak, when in reality it was strong, but the college itself was half the time deceived about "its" merits. We are glad that this secrecy is about to be done away with at Yale, - we wish what little there is here could be abolished also. Is there not much greater glory in the hard-earned victory of one well-trained team over another, than the overwhelming triumph of a team which has gained perfection in secrecy and lulled her adversary into over-confidence? We are not free...
...months, such great discomfort, that I must trespass upon your space a little to air my grievances. Imprimis. I take Pol. Econ. IV which recites in Massachusetts. I believe you have published a previous complaint about the absence of shades on the windows in that building, and I wish to reiterate...