Word: boldly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...most difficult struggle which the freshmen will have to overcome, with the exception of the Yale game. The reputation which the Exeter eleven has already acquired is well known. The team is undoubtedly the best that the school has ever produced, and the fact that they were bold enough to challenge our University eleven shows that they must play with considerable skill and courage. Our freshmen, however, are not discouraged at the bold front which the Exeter men put on. They have done all they can as a preparation for their struggle and will start today with a determination...
...week, when the two unfortunates were out. Nearly all the clothing was taken away. The following appears in the Yale Record: "All contributions for the Durfee sufferers may be handed to the committee, any articles of clothing will be acceptable." The Record also says, in an editorial on this bold theft. "When a man comes home, and finds everything gone but a paper collar, and a tennis belt he realizes what it is to be a flood-sufferer...
Astronomy at Yale.-One of the youthful astronomers in the junior class made the bold assertion in recitation yesterday that there were but two tides in a month, one high tide and one low tide...
...among them the celebrated corps of Longstreet from Lee's army in Virginia. These gave him a numerical superiority and he, in his turn, prepared to take the offensive and crush Rosecrans' detached forces. Here was a great opportunity to retrieve the drooping fortunes of the South by one bold move. But Rosecrans could gain little and close much by fighting a superiorforce so far from Nashville, his base of supplies. He would have done better to have waited in Chattanooga until more troops and supplies should put him in a perfectly safe condition...
...mere educating machines to teach by rote the blessings of a military despotism. They have long since learned to hold their tongues not only upon the subject of the Government, but upon history, philosophy, economics, and nearly every other topic of the higher learning. But recently a Professor so bold as to translate your English John Mill was forced to take the long Siberian exile. Only a few years ago, in the study of Roman history, the Roman Republic was required to be either entirely eliminated or else passed over with the general statement that, "after Tarquinius the Roman people...