Word: rightnesses
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...great measure mitigated if everyone will only think a little less of his own comfort and have an eye to that of others. If each person on finishing a certain exercise will at once move off and give the next person a chance, everything will go right. At present there is a tendency on the part of some to monopolize certain pieces of apparatus for an excessively long time during the most crowded hours, while others, principally freshmen it is to be hoped, see fit to occupy the apparatus for resting places instead of for its legitimate purpose. Of course...
...hardly think the New York Times is justified in its gloomy view of the future of the national cheer, nor that it does right in ascribing so great a share to American colleges in bringing about the present "degeneracy" of the practice. The popular cheer and the college cheer are essentially distinct. If the good people of this country choose to conform the style of their hurrahs more or less to the fashions set by the colleges, surely the latter are not to blame. The form of cheering adopted by any college is its distinctive possession and invaluable birthright...
...your precious volume? Your inquiries are met with ready promises of restoration ; he will bring it back, or he cannot just lay his hand upon it, or some one has borrowed it without leave and it will be sure to come back, and then you shall have it all right. All which things are tests of patience and good humor...
...contrary to precedent as well. Only last year there was a tie, but no one heard of an actual proposal for another game. We can see no possible claim that the Yale freshmen have now for urging the acceptance of their challenge, and we believe that '87 does entirely right in declining to play again...
...wholly superfluous luxuries. The mathematical and historical teaching is very deficient, and the whole system of instruction needs much improvement. There is a story told that a commissioner sent to inspect one of the schools where mathematics was somewhat lamely taught, asked the professor of mathematics how many right angles there are in a triangle. The professor after deliberating a moment or two asked permission to consult with his colleagues before answering. The next day the professor replied, not without pride, that it depended on the size of the triangle...