Word: rightful
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...shouting, "Here he is, at last." Surprised at such a reception, I hesitated, thinking it some deep-laid plot to entrap me, but finally I entered. In a moment an elderly lady came rushing downstairs, and in one breath exclaimed, "So you are the doctor, are you? Well, come right up, for Rose is very sick." The plot thickens, I thought; but I was bound to continue, whatever the consequences might be, and I was only too eager when I thought that Rose was probably the fair one for whom I was searching. I followed...
...mostly Yalensicula and Book Table. The 'Varsity's change of cover is no improvement, we fear; but the 'Varsity is emphatically a paper of sound judgment, - except possibly as regards the Notre Dame Scholastic, with which it is waging bitter war on the question of a college paper's right to publish official communications. The Yale News appears to be seriously alarmed at the indications of a "brace" by Harvard in athletic matters. "When Harvard braces it means that there is work ahead. We cannot afford to lose what we have won." The Sun that visits Cornell daily is disposed...
...editorial in a recent Advocate takes up the much-discussed question of the football championship, and decides that Princeton still has a right to the title which she has held for the past three years. To us it seems that this decision is wrong. The facts are as follows: Princeton was champion last year, and has won two games and tied one this year. (This assumes that she will get a game from Columbia either by play or forfeit.) Yale has precisely the same score. Now, if the championship is something that is played for each year...
...class of '80, were undoubtedly very well satisfied with the way in which it worked. On the whole, the system is a good one, and does encourage more systematic work; but there are several points in which last year's trial suggests modification of it. Thus, it seems hardly right that Honorable Mention in a modern language which may have been acquired abroad, should be considered a ground for a degree cum laude. Again, in the Greek courses, it is difficult to see why Greek 1 of two years ago is excluded from the count, while Greek 2 is counted...
FAUST(aside). Oh! Perplexity! can it be right...