Word: yes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...soil its new uniforms; they are dirty now, at any rate, and perhaps the play will improve in consequence. Ninety doesn't seem to realize that she has a game with Yale ahead of her at that, and only about three weeks distant, too. They urge in their defence, "Yes, but Sears and Harding will play in the Yale game." True, little friends, but one end-rush does not make a victory any more than the proverbial swallow makes a summer; you must train your eleven to play foot-ball and not puss-in the-corner; your rushers must...
...Harvard student was recently carrying on a conversation with a young lady in the presence of a couple of Yale men. She had inquired if he knew a certain Mr. T., of Harvard, whom she had recently met. He replied: "Oh, yes, I know him - a tall, sandy fellow in the law school." "No," she replied, to the jubilant amusement of the Yalensains, "he was tall, but he wasn't sandy; he was a Harvard man." - Yale Record...
...come back to the main question again whether Harvard was over hasty, we cannot well give an unqualified answer. Yes, if we take the present state of educational matters into consideration; no, if we look ahead to the great change which is to be effected. At present there is a great gap between school and university which the young man has to jump over as best he can. His academical training ceases long before it is nearly sufficient; he is left to make shift for himself in a sea of different studies, and there is no denying that the average...
Thoughtful Boston young lady, intensely interested in ancient history, to Harvard junior: "Ah, Mr. H -, when you think of the old Egyptians do you not feel impressed with the sense of our indebtedness to the great Rosetta Stone?" Harvard junior, slightly discomposed, but coming gallantly forward: "Yes, yes indeed; but then her reign only gives us a further proof of woman's influence, you know." Enthusiastic young lady descends to a lower level. - Boston Journal...
...college vocabulary that long list of slang words and phrases beginning with the ubiquitous "chestnut" and ending with the non-committal "rot" and we at once appreciate the sphere which slang has come to assume in Harvard life. Our conversation would henceforth lose its elegance, its pungency, its accuracy. Yes, slang is prevalent at Harvard. It is in the class-room, the dormitory, on the field. You hear it on the river; in the gymnasium, - everywhere. But its use has such proportions that comment upon it is unexpected, and for any human power to abolish it is impossible...