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...Boston papers tell a story of a Yale poker game which was recently played. It was a jack pot and it had grown, after much heavy betting to $250. The loser, wonderful to relate, fainted on the show of hands. We are inclined to discredit this story for we think no Yale man would faint...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/6/1886 | See Source »

EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I think that every student can see the advisability of such a course as is now being urged in your columns, - namely, a course in Contemporaneous History; and I feel so strongly that an inestimable benefit would be derived from it that I cannot refrain from writing and offering a few suggestions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONTEMPORANEOUS HISTORY AGAIN. | 2/5/1886 | See Source »

...believe that, if there is any truth in the charge that a college education does not fit a man for active business life, it is because college men, as students of the past, are too apt to think that the past is everything, and the present nothing, and so find when they have graduated that there are a good many things of practical, every day importance which they have yet to learn. To those of us who intend to make journalism our life work, a course in contemporaneous history would be of inestimable benefit, and as we are neither...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/3/1886 | See Source »

...college graduate is worse off than a man who has never been to college; third, that the men who are graduated, from college are worse off at the end of a term of years than they would have been had they never gone to college. We do not think that any one of these three propositions can be proved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/2/1886 | See Source »

...board are brightening as they take their flight. But in justice to your great compeer, the Police Gazette, we implore you to desist, Lampy, for if you continue thus, your friend will certainly be extinguished. And Lampy, you are so very funny, though pitifully so, that we might almost think that the prayer petition is about to be granted, - and this raises hopes which no man can innocently enjoy. But this weather is so "sloppy" that perhaps even Lampy can be forgiven if he will cease to attempt henceforth to illumine his columns with that talismanic word, the CRIMSON...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/1/1886 | See Source »