Word: yaleism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...misunderstanding but cannot but deplore the puerile spirit of the New's reply in which we are accused of coining questionable stories in order to fill space. The writer of the reply must have known that the mistake arose the habit of ascribing all that is distinctively Yaleism to the News...
After a desperate struggle of ten innings, Yale defeated Dartmouth, 12 to 11, not on their merits, but by a Yaleism as discourteous as it was unusual. At the end of the fifth inning, with a score of 10 to 2 against Yale, and the nine looking rather blue, the crowd realized that they were being outplayed in the field, at the bat and in base running, and saw that their only hope lay in getting Dartmouth rattled. This, headed by oarsmen, foot ball players and others, they succeeded in doing by bombarding the visitors at every move with...
...their declaration. In the main point at issue,-the improving of the character of the game,-we entirely agree with the faculty, and feel that some radical change is necessary. We emphatically stated our position last year on the style of play, which was first given its name of Yaleism by one of our correspondents, and we hold the same position this year. Foot-ball with all its roughness can be made a gentlemanly game, and a game that we need not feel ashamed to take our friends to see. Several years ago it was such a game...
...recent article in the Congregationalist, entitled "American College Customs," Professor Fisher of Yale incidentally pays his respects to some of Yale's pet institutions. His remarks, coming from the source they do, have a peculiar interest, for they show that "Yaleism," in some of its forms at least, does not meet with universal approval, even among the officers of the college itself. We give below Professor Fisher's comments on two of the institutions in question...
...curious paralellism to this expression occurs in the last Yale Courant, which cries out: "The day seems rapidly approaching when the HERALD and and the News shall lie down together, and the little Crimson shall lead them." ("Little" Crimson because of the recent article on "Yaleism...