Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...victory practically gives Harvard the precedence over Yale in athletic sports for the year to come. So crushing a defeat can hardly be retrieved in less time, even by so great a college as that at New Haven. The crew that has won for Harvard the "amateur champion ship of America" will not soon be forgotten...
...game was April 7, with the Athletics of Philadelphia, and Yale was beaten by a score of 12 to 0. The fielding of the nines was about equal, but the Athletics won by heavy batting. On the whole the prospects for a close and exciting contest for the champion ship are excellent. The nines appear to be more evenly matched than ever before From the reports that have reached us up to the present time, it would seem that chances favor Princeton and Brown. Amherst does not expect to win the championship but hopes to make a good showing. Yale...
...Criticism of some recent popular Novel. 2. An Account of the Tertiary Coal in the United States. 3. Gortschakoff. 4. Political Career of Daniel Webster. 5. The Correspondence between Emerson and Carlyle. 6. A Comparison of Schiller's "Song of the Bell" with Longfellow's "Building of the Ship." 7. A Description of an old New England Town. 8. A short story...
...freshmen and others whom it may be well to warn. For the benefit of these we will say that if any picturesque looking foreigners who speak nothing but Espanol or French call upon you with a delightful tale of having just arrived in Boston from Havana on a ship with fine cigars which they have smuggled in and will sell to you dirt cheap at $5 per hundred - if such creatures call upon you, stop neither to parley with them or buy their wares, but turn them out of the premises at once. The men are impostors and their wares...
Universities, as I understand them, are not absolutely essential to the teaching of professions. Let me make an extreme supposition. A great naval commander, like Nelson, is sent on board ship at eleven or twelve; his previous knowledge or general training is what you may suppose for that age. It is in the course of actual service, and in no other way, that he acquires his professional fitness for commanding fleets. Is this right or is it wrong? Perhaps it is wrong, but it has gone on so for a long time. Well, why may not a preacher be formed...