Word: united states
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Dates: during 1883-1883
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...foot-ball team, playing every day against a very cuch inferior team, has fallen into that dreaded state which has so often proven Yale's downfall; it is that of over-confidence. It is but natural when one side is always the winning side, and that too with no great exertion, that this side should begin to feel an over-weening confdence in its own skill and knowledge, and this has been the case so far this season with our team. No important games have as yet been played, and the judgment formed by the team of its strength from...
...generic term now applied to the higher class of clerical schools) by his way of conducting himself in the presence of his elders," says the London Times. "The lyceen is a rougher fellow altogether. He lives in a sort of barracks, wears a uniform, counts only as a unit in a mass who are governed in a semi-military fashion, and gets little or no separate attention from his masters. Outside the college walls no moral restraint is put upon him at all. If a professor saw him smoking or drinking spirits in a cafe on Sunday while...