Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Lampoon will issue a special number next Friday - not a Thanksgiving number, but, we understand, a "Yale" number...
...year; that the forward line charges well, but their tackling is not remarkable; that the team plays a risky game, sometimes brilliant, sometimes unsteady. Princeton has chiefly to fear a drop-kick from the field. This criticism is, of course, based solely on the Rutgers game, in which, we understand, Yale played with several substitutes. - [Princetonian...
There is no good reason why a graduate of Harvard, or, in fact any other college, should always feel compelled to go elsewhere for purposes of study after he has obtained his bachelor's degree. Of course we can understand the advantages of going abroad, where the elements of travel and living in a foreign land are often a great inducement to men. But there certainly is no reason for men to leave Harvard and go to Johns Hopkins. Harvard has as complete a graduate course as any college in the country. Here are gathered together men who have become...
...understand that Mr. Taussig is to read the essay for which he received the Toppan prize at the next meeting of the Finance Club, which will probably be held next Wednesday evening. As the essay treats of the tariff question which is at present so much discussed, we feel that there will be a general desire among the students to listen to it. It is to be hoped, therefore, that the Finance Club will make their meeting an open one. Indeed, the plan of throwing open all of the meetings of the club to such men as are interested...
Progress gives a succinct statement of the question of co-education : "I cannot understand why women or girls and those who speak for them should want co-education. There are colleges and schools for girls nearly equal in every respect to the best of those for boys. If these girls' colleges continue to fall short of the standard of the highest universities it must be because it is not deemed well that exactly similar education be given both sexes. I do not assert that the education of a girl should be inferior to that of a boy, but I think...