Word: orientals
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Bowdoin Orient has some opinions on the present regime at Yale and its methods of instruction, and thinks that in this matter that "a radical change, both in principle and practice, must be made if Yale is to hold in the future the high position she has enjoyed in the past...
...themselves by filling the professor's overcoat with a suspicious looking bottle, several clam shells, etc. Next day, Prof. L. remarks that the gentlemen who left the remains of their lunch in his coat could have them on application. The few who did not laugh rather gave themselves away. - [Orient...
...lesson went." Professor - "Well, it also shows that cats could once drink milk. Now, man sometimes drinks milk. Therefore man descended from a cat. You will, without review, be examined tomorrow morning for one hour on the last 4,000 pages of your text-book." - [Orient...
...Bowdoin Orient sings the praises of the stylograph as follows: "Among modern inventions there is none which is more likely to influence poetry and literature, as well as practical life, than the stylograph. Poets have always looked with peculiar veneration on the pens which have enabled them to transcribe their flowing thoughts, and the stylograph is a much more proper object for poetic inspiration than the vulgar goose quill or commonplace steel pen. A more poetical name might, perhaps, be invented for it, and we can easily imagine a poet addressing an ode to his stylograph, and introducing some simile...
...latest is from one of the freshmen who addresses his class officer, in an excuse, as "Dear Friend." - [Orient...