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...prominent notice that familiar feature of Yale character - complete inability to act in a gentlemanly manner under any circumstances, great or small. As the Crimson remarked in a recent issue, it seemed for a while as if there had crawled into the hearts of Yale men, despite the most strenuous opposition, a desire to assume, at least, the semblance of respectability and even courtesy, but we have been toying with a delusion and a snare. The item in question stated that Mr. Robinson had received overtures from Yale men to accept the position of gymnasium trainer at the institution that...
Really it must after all have been very wicked, for how can we reasonably doubt the strenuous testimony of so many immaculate public journals any longer? Here is how the American lectures us : "The college boys who behaved so rudely in various cities - especially Boston and Rochester - at the lectures of Mr. Oscar Wilde, were probably somewhat astonished to find themselves severely lectured for their conduct, in the newspapers. When they carried out practically what they had been reading in their daily journals [Rochester has no daily, so that must be aimed directly at Harvard], they doubtless had the expectation...
...buildings and equipments has been from the first, as is stated in its annual register, "to defer the formation of museums, and the purchase of collections for remote and general purposes, and the reconstruction of costly buildings." It is partly in consequence of this policy and of a strenuous striving to apply its generous funds to the best apparent uses that institution has been able in so short a time to rank among the very first of American universities. It has been visibly the case with her that men and quality of instruction have gone before unwieldy buildings, constructed mostly...
...before the University race would seriously interfere with the enjoyment of the latter, there is room for much debate. One thing is certain, however, that the accommodations for man and beast at New London are entirely insufficient on such an occasion as an inter-University race, and that strenuous efforts should be made to prevent a repetition of the famine that raged there the 28th of last June...
...years. He had previously borne high office, and performed distinguished service, alike in the executive, legislative, and judicial departments of the State government, and had been, from his early manhood, a successful and honored member of the legal profession. He was a man of excellent ability, of the most strenuous diligence, of an integrity absolutely impenetrable, and of a benevolence which made his whole life an unceasing ministry of kindness. Those who knew him best knew not that he had a fault, and no man had more fully than he the profound respect and warm affection of all within...