Word: yalelies
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...meeting of the Executive Committee of the Freshman Base Ball Club, held last Wednesday, it was voted to send a challenge to the Yale Academic Freshmen...
...confess to a hearty surprise at a bit of information in the Courant. It seems that a consolidated nine is to be picked from the Scientific and Academic Freshmen to play our Freshman nine in the match which is soon to take place. We fail to see what right Yale has to do this. All previous Freshman matches have been between the two Academic departments, and there has been no other arrangement made for this year. It is hardly possible that the definition of "undergraduate," made at a Boating Convention for university crews, can have been so stretched...
...those churches. It requires assent to the common Evangelical doctrines for admission to regular membership, but invites all students to its meetings. These are characterized by the same spirit that may be felt in any Evangelical prayer-meeting, and have been very recently commended to the writer by a Yale Theological Professor. Next, in order of age, stands the St. Paul's Society, founded in 1861. This, again, may be compared to an Episcopal church. It is designed to draw Episcopalians together, "afford them opportunities of uniting in worship agreeably to the spirit and forms of their church...
...that while we have the look materialistic, they have the look of "gentlemen rowdies." 'T is a rude expression, and I would not use it myself; but it shows the opinion of our Wesleyan friend to have been the same as mine, that Harvard is not much worse than Yale; while we are deficient in faith, they are deficient in works...
Therefore, parents of promising sons! who hope to see your boys developed by the wide and exhaustive culture of Harvard or Yale, beware that you do not offer them this apple of knowledge, for the death-penalty is incurred by him who partakes thereof; choose you rather the quarries of Middletown, or the hills and trout-brooks of Williamstown, where the shadow of doubt has not yet fallen, and the infidel lifts not up his voice...