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...that the spirit of Yale should prove more congenial to young men reared on the breezy plains of the great West, but when an attempt is made to force that spirit into schools composed of young men who have in the past shown a wise depreciation of it, some comment and even criticism, ought to be made. We fear that worn-out shells and the opportunity of receiving "odds" will prove inducement enough to some young men to don the blue, but we sincerely trust that if unbecoming proselyting is to be done, it may be done by no more...
...robes swept the pavement others crept up to an unseemingly shortness. In a word, there seemed to be no clear distinctive mark by which a member of the faculty could be distinguished as such. This subject has been revived at every Class Day for years, and it again provokes comment when the garments so essential to the proper ceremonies of an academical observance again appear. It seems hardly too critical to suggest that if the university is to attempt to preserve the umities those unities should display a little more unanimity...
...will he had rendered it possible for the purpose of the infant Colony, which had been recorded two years before, to be carried out, - a will which no man has told us he had ever seen, but whose provisions have come down to us, in the grateful comment of his friends and of those of the college. And so the figure of John Harvard rises before us to-day, doubly sacred, very likely for the scant knowledge which we have of him, lofty and august in the ideal which he represents, the gift of the great University...
...sanguine and affectionate effusions of our young friend, "Hopeful, '90," have been published by the CRIMSON in the earnest hope of turning from their wicked wily ways, the saucy sophomore and other erring upperclassmen. It was not our intention to make editorial comment on the gentle pleadings of our correspondent. But many other letters, two of which we publish in to-day's issue, have been received from the writer's class mates, - from which we gather that the freshman class have not given a contract to young Hopeful to write in their behalf. Alas, ye wicked generation of upperclassmen...
...publish in another column a communication from Prof. Briggs relative to an editorial upon a previous communication from this gentleman. We are sorry that any misunderstanding has occurred and trust that the present letter will need no comment...