Word: yieldings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hospitability for new ideas has characterized the Yale men of the past, and I commend the Yale spirit to you in this regard. Yield yourself to this influence of the University. Be earnest, honest and fair-minded students. Manliness and the manly sense of duty is allied to this. It is the second element of the Yale student. The rules of the university life are justified largely on this ground; they are the expression of manly living. The gentleman of leisure, even of elegant leisure, is not so far as my observation extends, the manly...
...salaries and the general expenses immediately connected with the students, was about $200,000 during the year 1884-85, while the amount received from term-bills was only a little over $185,000. Formerly mortgages were an excellent form of investment for the university, but at present reliable mortgages yield scarcely 4 per cent. A considerable portion of the college funds in invested in railroad bonds. A small amount is invested in manufacturing stocks, but this is not so good a form of investment, as it yields a variable income...
...Foremost among the tuggers was J. H. B. Easton, the "biggest anchor any team ever had," as an enthusiastic soldier remarked who was trying to place $10 against $5 that Harvard would win. He has tugged seven times in that hopeful capacity, and only once has Harvard had to yield the victory. The other members of the team do not compare well with Easton in size of body, but they are scholarly, toughened young men, and each one good in his place, They were: E. A. Pease, captain and 1; Percy Chase, 2; Franklin Remington, 3. The teams took hold...
...easily be made up by a slight addition to the work after the recess. That the loss would not be a serious one in any given case is shown by the cuts already so kindly granted us, by instructors very well qualified to judge. Why cannot the faculty then yield and give us freely what is rapidly becoming an established illegal fact, namely a Thanksgiving recess...
...gist of our position is, that, if we yield to Yale again this year, we may as well be prepared to yield to her for all time to come, which we have no notion of doing. The conditions on which we insist this year have been copied with minuteness, and as a matter of principle, from the conditions which Yale saw fit to force on us last year; after this year, if Yale wishes to do so, the arrangements between the two colleges will be a matter for mutual concession, but Yale must first make good her unfair extortions...