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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...amount demanded of the postgraduate." This may be all very true, but our correspondent evidently is oblivious of the fact that a great many men come to the Law School direct from preparatory schools. They come to prepare for the pursuit of a particular profession; and, although they may shine in the bright galaxy of that profession, yet it does not at all follow that they are all that a degree of Master of Arts would require them to be, or would represent them to be. The degree of A. M. is not what it used...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/7/1888 | See Source »

...countiess lamps of Veritas shine bright...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The "Monthly." | 1/10/1888 | See Source »

...practice on the field during a rainstorm. It expresses the nope that no one will ever have the opportunity again of saying that '91 is a fair weather foot-ball class. It would be well for our freshmen to bear this in mind and play football, rain or shine, as they will hereafter at New Haven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 10/8/1887 | See Source »

...Yale boys are getting right down to work to keep up the athletic reputation of the college. Yesterday the foot-ball team commenced its work on the Yale field, and every day, rain or shine, from now until the foot-ball season is at an end, the practice will be kept up. Captain Harry Beecher, in speaking of the team's prospects, said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athletics at Yale. | 9/30/1887 | See Source »

...this time we find base-ball enthusiasm in all colleges at a high pitch. The Hamilton paper I have alluded to before, prints a lurid editorial on the subject: "Wake up, ballers! Make Hamilton shine this year. Make ball playing red hot! . . . . Our practice here don't amount to shucks! We are lazy and self-conceited; and we had better not practice at all than practice as we do. . . .One and all, wake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Twenty Years of Harvard Base-Ball. | 2/15/1887 | See Source »

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