Word: proverb
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with Braham's Medley and excited so much enthusiasm that it was necessary to respond to three encores. The organization clearly made the hit of the evening. The programme closed with the familiar Mendelssohn wedding march by the Sodality and a group of college songs, of which the "Spanish Proverb" and the "Versatile Baby" were the best...
...During my long service in the University, my relations with the students were always agreeable, not seldom fruitful, to me, and in some good measure, I trust, to my pupils also. But in my experience as a teacher nothing ever gave me such pleasure as your friendly words. The proverb tells us that "he who plants pears, plants for his heirs." I seem to myself (and it is no small gratification to an old man) to be tasting fruit from a tree of my own setting as I read what you say to me. I shall treasure your letter with...
...considering the crippled state of our team. But whatever way be the issue, we may all be sure that every man on the eleven will enter into this last championship game with the determination to do his best and to win if possible. Labor vincit omnia, is an old proverb and we do not think that Yale is so far advanced as not to be included in the omnia of this world. At least we will hope so on this occasion...
...consider now a restriction to which our nine has been lately subjected. Professional teams cannot be our adversaries on the diamond. The arguments used by our faculty in subjecting our nine to this handicap are well known, and seem sufficient to them; but if they should consider that old proverb, "Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well," and should ponder over the fact that professionals not only play better ball, but play ball in a more gentlemanly way than most amateur clubs, they might at least be willing to bring forward the subject once more, and give...
...Eliot Norton, who replied in the negative, denied this statement of the preceding speaker. Blaine cannot be nominated. As the old proverb runs: "Them that holloas don't always get there." Mr. Blaine would go before the country as a defeated candidate, and he would have a divided party behind him. Those who have once become mugwumps never go back, and in 1888 it will be far easier to break party affiliations than ever before. If Blaine is nominated, the Republican party, except in name, will be at an end. (Applause...