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...Evening Post says that for the Yale nine this year, Bremner, Marsh, Stewart, Stagg, Sheppard and Brigham are sure of their places on the Yale nine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/12/1886 | See Source »

...Genevieve;" in the beauty and grace of his love we see the ten-fold greater beauty and grace of our love. And so we applaud him to the echo and he walks before us with an added sense of his power and genius. And we steal his lines and post them as an offering to our love, no longer his. With pedantic pen and labored toil B. sings of the "Wail of the Whip-poor-Will," and if his lines help out the editor of the Bugle, and are printed, a fond mother weeps in joy over the promise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Poets. | 2/9/1886 | See Source »

...have noticed two classes of individuals which these trying times produce, who ought to be ostracised by their fellow men, and, as it were, withered in the bud. We mean the growlers, and those of coroner instincts who hold post-mortems over their examinations. The growler, unlike his bibulous namesake, is a cause of depression and nervous exhaustion wherever he goes. It is enough, in the agonies of a protracted grind, to feel your own ignorance and shortcomings without having some lugubrious acquaintance darkly accusing the faculty, the fates, and the well - others, for things for which his own misapplication...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/4/1886 | See Source »

...remedies proposed by the correspondent are first and foremost, a recognition of the fact that there are good and bad methods of teaching, and that the post graduate study of pedagogy should be encouraged. The instructors should be chosen for their power to teach, and not entirely for what they may know. Both professors and tutors should be paid much higher salaries, and the larger courses provided with additional instructors. Finally the alumnus demands, what seems most significant in view of the self-righteousness of present Yale undergraduate opinion, namely, that compulsory attendance at prayers shall be abolished, together with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Yale Curriculum. | 2/2/1886 | See Source »

...last number of the Post. contains an article on "Americomania in England." Now for communications...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/28/1886 | See Source »