Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...Yale News advises its readers to cram up Camille before going to see M'dlle Bernhardt next week. We advise the editors of the News to find out how to abbreviate Mademoiselle...
...glad to see from the report of the Base Ball Convention that no opposition was made to the admittance of Yale into the Association. It is certainly much better to have all the prominent colleges represented in such an association, and that there be no ill-feeling toward any one in particular. We think it would be advisable to have some stated amount as a guarantee for the appearance of a club, so as to avoid any trouble like that in Amherst's case...
...hoped that the custom, once started, would not be allowed to fall into disuse. But, either owing to oversight or negligence, no record of the last October races has yet appeared in the Gymnasium, and it is time for the Executive Committee of the Boat Club to see that this omission is rectified. It is also proper, in this connection, to remind the Athletic Association that a similar step on its part would add materially to the interest of the Gymnasium, besides supplying a permanent roll from which its records could be taken...
...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, as well as Greek 3, which, if difficulty be the criterion in arranging the courses, should properly be Greek...
...predicted a close and exciting contest; and though, in fact, the rowing, merely as rowing, was a much more interesting exhibition than has yet been given by a Harvard-Yale race on the Thames, - the event was a thing of profound indifference to the public. "Absolutely nobody" went to see it. Not two dozen undergraduates from Columbia and not one dozen from Harvard were in attendance. The whole number of people attracted from out of town was less than 200, and the New Londoners themselves very generally ignored the show. Exactly 162 tickets were sold to the grand stand, which...