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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...surprised that we speak in this way, for some have sought to turn over the leaves of this book in the style of the blase dilettante and brand it forever with such meaningless phrase as we have before mentioned. A careful student, however, of the work, and one who is willing to see its beauties as well as to underscore its faults, will recognize in the first poem, "Exeter," many passages that are excellent and far above the average of undergraduate effusions...
...think that the Union is distinctly to be congratulated in having decided not to undertake a legislative branch. The object of the Union is to encourage debate on topics of general interest, not to countenance the quibbling and meaningless discussions into which a legislative branch would inevitably degenerate; besides, even the importance of a knowledge of parliamentary procedure, about which so much was said on Thursday evening, can be of little value to most of us. All else that was claimed for the legislative branch can legitimately be secured in the Union as it is; and it would have been...
...fixed tradition. Hence, whatever talk may be raised to the contrary by a minority of "fresh" and shortsighted enthusiasts, the experienced and sagacious majority can always be depended on to insist that the Freshmen of Yale shall never again be allowed to waste their muscle and money in meaningless and uninteresting rowing contests with the Freshmen of other colleges...
...three long hours. Here was an opportunity to make the society what it intends to be, - a society of good fellowship among good men for doing good work. This opportunity was thrown away. Some changes were made, but, according to the confession of some of the officers themselves, meaningless changes. After the long discussion, the society remains as exclusive as ever. None but those who can conscientiously subscribe to certain dogmas can be members of the society, according to the final decision of the last meeting...