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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...recent notice of a prize offered by the Glee Club for a song, the word "Yale" should have been inserted...
...think that the athletic spirit at Yale must be too sportsmanlike to allow the baseball games to fall through because Yale has, by her own deliberate action, weakened her teams and their chances of winning. If this were not the case, Yale "grit" would soon become a by-word. However, we do not believe that Yale will be found wanting in spirit and we look forward hopefully to a final settlement of the difficulties...
...until after Christ's time that men began to enquire whether this masculine quality of bravery was all that a man ought to possess. As they began to enquire, they began to improve, and so the meaning of the word developed, until it has come to include not merely bravery, but all the distinctly moral virtues, which one must have today if he would be a true...
Manliness is a quality that every lad longs to possess; it is his aspiration to be manly. And as he gets into school, he there tries to exemplify his conception of the word. But unfortunately he often gets a wrong idea, and comes to think it manly to frequent the bar-room, or gambling places. It is an evil that is common to most men at certain stages of their lives, an evil for which society is responsible. A man's idea will conform not to what he ought to be, but to what he is allowed...
...Word has been received from the Manager of the nine that Princeton has declined to play Harvard in baseball unless Harvard has a strictly undergraduate team. It is understood that Princeton has made this decision in order that she may be consistent. She has proposed to the University of Pennsylvania to play according to the undergraduate rule; if she plays Yale it will, of course, be under the same rule and she cannot consistently play Harvard under any other condition...