Word: yales
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...boarders at the Yale Club pay $4.50 per week...
NATURALLY enough, we think, the [Cornell] challenges were not accepted. The papers of Harvard and Yale treated the affair in a perfectly cool and proper way, but the Cornell Era seized the opportunity of indulging in some of that ungentlemanly bluster of which it is so fond. We do not doubt that the challenged universities acted without any mean or unworthy motives. - Acta Columbiana...
...YALE, having suffered from similar attacks, extends, through the Lit., her sympathy to Harvard. Adverting to the Transcript's criticisms of certain Harvard students at Boston theatres, the Lit. says...
...with the students, - not, mind you, with those few who are justly condemned, but with the college in general, which is made to bear the charges deserved by a few. It half a dozen young rascals 'cut up' and disgrace themselves, there is no end of complaints of 'Yale impiety' and 'Harvard indecency,' thus inculpating a thousand young men in the guilt of half a dozen. We have spoken of this matter before, but we wish we could again impress on the minds of the scandalized exposers of college corruption that the majority of us are real good fellows...
...prohibit its students from wearing plaid suits and high collars, electing Spanish, or eating Limburger cheese after sundown, and a sensible person would only smile and draw his own private conclusions as to the sanity of that august body; but when a respectable journal, making comments on Harvard and Yale, sets itself up as champion of such an inane course as refusing college aid to such students as "drink, smoke, dance, or play billiards," we are forced to believe that the writer either has an eye to the paper's country subscription-list rather than to the convictions...