Word: authority
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Yale had best look out for her political laurels, for Amherst has entered the race. The text-book used is President Seelye's recent speech on counting the Electoral votes, copies of which are gratuitously furnished by the author to each student...
...York Times has an exhaustive editorial, in a recent issue, on the subject of elective studies. The author shows a good deal of sense and acknowledge of his subject, but the article can hardly apply to us, as we have realized every improvement which he advocates. The smaller colleges that still crawl in the old rut of making every man swallow the same dose may find it to their advantage to consider this article carefully. The time has come when the old ideas of education are no longer applicable, and the sooner they are laid aside the better. The self...
...Yale Lit is lighter this month than usual, but it is no less readable on that account. In the criticism of Deirdre, the author prefers, with Philip Gilbert Hammerton, to praise, than with the Nation to condemn. One of the best things in the Lit is the following courteous explanation: "We have an explanation for the Cornell Era, that referred to us rather discourteously in a late issue. The color of our cover was chosen for us, dear Era, O, ever so long ago, long before we came here; long before it was suggested to the great Mr. Cornell...
...usurping the right of the author of "Letters to a Freshman," I shall here offer a piece of advice to the receptive minds of the members of that class. Gentle Freshman, be not afraid of the examiner, for he is not as terrible as he looks. You know that you will not be called up in your Greek to-day, for it was only yesterday that you made such frightful work of it. Brown, Smith, and Jones - specimen bricks, pride of the instructor's heart, who have read up all their Grote - will be the unlucky ones...
...light gleaming in your room as you return across the Yard, to have some one to call to you or growl at you as you open the door, some one ready to laugh with you at your author's wit, or to swear with you at the blindness of a textbook, - all this certainly tends to make life sweet. The other day, when that worthy African continued for the space of five minutes to call down blessings from Heaven upon my head in return for my five-cent subscription to the missionary cause, could I, had there been...