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...vanity overcome you; and you will fall unless you perceive your error in time. We believe you can beat Yale if you go about it in the right way; you are dolefully wrong, now. Is it your captain's fault, Ninety, or, Captain, is it the team's? Correct it whose ever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/1/1886 | See Source »

...launch usually accompanies the crew in the afternoon, so as to enable the coach to watch the men and correct their faults. This afternoon, however, on account of a little injury to the machinery, it could not be used. After supper, which is served at about a quarter of eight, the men lounge about on the piazza, singing or talking, until ten o'clock, when they retire for the night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard University Crew. | 6/24/1886 | See Source »

...Crimson feels much aggrieved because our freshmen refuse to consider their first game with Harvard, '89, as the fence game." Our E. C. further remarks with much satire that Yale, '89, only considers it a fence game when victorious. We would beg to state that the Crimson is absolutely correct in its surmise and has hit the nail squarely on the head." - Yale Courant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/23/1886 | See Source »

...faculty forbidding changes of electives after November 1, meets an abuse which, during the last college year, has become especially noticeable. The men generally put down "anything" on their lists before they leave in the spring, and take their time up to the mid-year's to correct them. The result is that the roll-calls abound with men who never come near the courses, and the instructors are bored with a floating population of volatile individuals who have little idea what they want. The action of the faculty in this matter will meet the approval of all well-regulated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/19/1886 | See Source »

...failure to hand in a list at the proper time, or any proposal of inadmissible topics, may seriously interfere with the success of the student in question. Owing to the shortness of the time, and the number of persons concerned, the instructors cannot undertake to correct any mistakes as to these matters. Especial care should therefore be taken to conform to the foregoing rules...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar. | 6/19/1886 | See Source »

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