Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...many of our colleges the professors are treated in an arrogant, dictatorial way that cannot be commended. It tends to destroy their self-respect and to render them detain. The students should understand that it is not their business to supervise the morals or manners of professors, except in the class-room. If the professors are made to feel that they themselves are the arbiters of their own actions, and that they are looked upon by the students as gentlemen and scholars, a higher tone will soon begin to prevail among them. Acts of disorder-such as the "marking down...
...Swift's reputation for eloquence and wit will doubtless draw a large audience, and I understand that there will be an opportunity for those who wish, to become members...
...object of ambition for the youth to go to college really it is a little weak. There are only nine men who can play the game, and there are 950 men in the college, and out of the nine there are only two desirable positions, I understand-that of pitcher and catcher-so that there is but little chance for the youth to gratify his ambition. I call it one of the worst games, although I know it is called the American national game...
...Beacons will play the Bostons on Saturday. Nichols was to have pitched for the Beacons, but we understand that the faculty have forbidden his doing...
...understand that the Yale freshmen object to playing the first game with our freshmen in Cambridge. We wish to say to the management of our team that it should insist upon the first game being played here and that any reasons for playing the game at New Haven must be very powerful ones to induce them to yield. For many years the first freshmen game has been played at New Haven and the time has certainly come for a change. This is a great advantage for a team to play its first game on its own grounds and among...