Word: forth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hoped will become popular. There has for some years past been a notable lack of new college songs. The same ones were sung year after year by the Glee Club. We therefore greet these fresh ones with pleasure, and hope that this stimulus from the Germans will call forth activity in song making among our own students. If men are to be found who are able to write new words and new music there is certainly a music-loving public of students who will sing the songs...
...represents, is calculated more to admit of sarcastic allusions to the education of himself and his family and to the poor instruction of years ago, than to open up a fair and thorough discussion of the whole subject. But among the numerous replies which that speech has called forth, none are so valuable or of so much importance as the one just published under the direction of a professor in our own university, John Williams White. Although Prof. White does not in any way either in his title or preface intimate that the book he has given us is especially...
...college looks to '87, to make an end of these continuous Yale victories. It will be no small matter for the freshman class to win this game for it concerns the entire college as well as themselves; but to gain the victory the eleven will have to put forth every endeavor and the class will have to give them its strongest support. Let there be no half-hearted backing today. Let every man cheer and cheer as if he meant it. Yale enthusiasm is proverbial; '87 must see to it that there be only the heartiest support from them...
...before the game commenced that it seemed possible for him to play at all. The Yale team played an almost perfect game throughout, and several rushes of Terry's were the finest we have met this season. Twombly stood up to his work manfully, for his aggressive playing called forth considerable rough handling. Tompkins and Farwell also worked very hard for their side...
...that both sides of the question as to the utility of a classical education have been so ably set forth by President Porter and Charles Francis Adams, it is both interesting and important to note the opinions of a leading English scholar, Rev. Frederick W. Farrar, on the same point. Especially is this so since it has been claimed that the 'American standard of classical Knowledge is low and that we must go where the system has been more faithfully tried for the highest evidence of its advantages.' There could be no better field from which to gain this evidence...