Word: background
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...club this year has taken great pains to have its exhibit a success. The pictures are hung to much better advantage than in former years, a special background being put up for the purpose. The pictures are all the result of the past summer's work, and show great activity on the part of the club members...
...read nowadays. The plays of Jonson, Webster, Hayward and the rest, are many of them excellent reading, and a slight acquaintance with them will almost always bring with it the desire for greater familiarity. Not only are they thus interesting in themselves, but they form the best background for Shakespeare's works, and it is a shame that we are content to take him without...
...ample time for preparation. The competition is open to all, and hence the choice of the picked twelve will doubtless represent the best speaking talent in the university. There is no argument why it should not, for there can be no cause for any one keeping in the background because of previous prejudices toward the old Union. The new Union will, if carried out on sound principles, be a society to which it will be an honor to belong; an honor because it will be made up of men of proved and acknowledged ability, who ought in justice...
...Depew has presented a valuable oil painting to Yale University which is to be hung in the gymnasium. It is a copy from the famous etching of the old Yale fence, representing a number of Yale men sitting on the rustic rails, and the old brick row in the background...
...athletic calendar has been published at Yale designed by H. G. Thomson '93. The calendar is in the center on a blue background. Around this are pictures of the gymnasium, boat house, the eleven, nine, the athletic team etc On the back of the card are the complete records for all the athletic teams. The calendar was gotten up by Lamson '93 & Rogers...