Word: rightnesses
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...shake out the ashes I heard your step. I thought I would let you finish the job, and therefore jumped into the coal-hole. Much obliged to you for this cheerful blaze, by the by. Can I do anything for you ?" "Yes," said I, "you have a prior right to the management of this fire, so suppose you fill the scuttle...
...Tuesday. Accordingly Captain Cushing went to Yale, and tried to arrange a match. Yale urged as her excuse for not playing with a fifteen that she had only eleven men in college who knew the rules. As they were the champions this year, they thought they had the right of insisting on the game they preferred. They admitted that we had the same right last year, and they considered that it was a mark of courtesy in us to yield to them: but now they refuse to extend us the same courtesy. To the fact brought forward by our captain...
...discipline for the second," and that "the Yale race should be kept independent of all others." Some may be inclined to resent these expressions as showing a spirit of loftiness and condescension on Harvard's part. We trust, however, that no such feeling will arise. It is natural and right that Harvard should particularly wish to defeat Yale, and that she should make other things subservient to that wish. Any one who studies Harvard's action in this affair will see the existence of a real desire to row Columbia. Our challenge has certainly received careful attention; and the only...
...neither right nor necessary that this state of things should exist. Mathematics cannot be made an easy study; but its difficulty might be vastly diminished and its attractiveness greatly increased if the faults in the present method of teaching were remedied. To the honor of one instructor, it should be said that a reform has been introduced in some of the lower courses, - noticeably, in the course in Differential Calculus. Over sixty men are taking this course, and are actually enthusiastic over it. When before were Harvard students enthusiastic over Mathematics? If all the instructors would follow the example...
...that the gas is turned off in the entries rather sooner than most of us would wish. Now, although the Faculty may think that "scores of us should not be out after eleven o'clock," and that, if we are out, a few bruises and barked shins serve us right, they certainly can have no objection if we are in at half past five or six in the evening. At this reasonable and moderate hour some of our entries are, at this season of the year, wellnigh as dark as they are at eleven; and yet the gas, especially...