Word: monday
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...LAST Monday's Herald had an enthusiastic letter from Yale on the prospects of her crew. The New York World of the same date also published a letter from its Yale correspondent, and the discrepancies between the statements of these two letters are as amusing as they are great. The special correspondent of the Herald declares that Yale has fourteen men in training for the crew, who practise constantly on the river and also in the gymnasium, there is much enthusiasm in the college, and a great and final effort will be made to outrow Harvard next June. The Yale...
...Annual Crimson Dinner will occur on the evening of Monday, February 8. All past editors are invited...
...last Monday's issue of the Echo appeared an exceedingly unjust letter on Freshman Mathematics signed J. C., 81, whose mathematical attainments are superior, I hope, to his logical. There may be a disparity in the tact of impartation between the tutors alluded to, but that does not warrant the statements or conclusions of J. C., '81. If a student understands a subject himself, there is no danger of appearing ridiculous at the blackboard. It is true that comparatively few students take mathematics after the Freshman year. The cause, as it seems to me, is this: students come to college...
...there are no recitations in the afternoon of Saturday, and as the Law Library closes at one o'clock on that day, there is probably no better chance during the week to use the Gymnasium. If the building must be closed some half-day, why should it not be Monday morning, when but few, possibly none, would be inconvenienced...
...first place, it is doubtful if many instructors and students find unemployed afternoons in the busy time from Monday to Friday, - always supposing that the student is ambitious to hold an honorable position in his studies. Granted unlimited leisure, the need of a general holiday is still urgent; else what opportunities exist to witness base-ball and football games, and various other athletic sports? Absence from recitation would be the rule and not the exception on such occasions...