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EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON. -Is it not possible for the junior class to have another class dinner? We all remember how successful the only attempt in that direction was last year, and it seems a shame that such an enjoyable occasion as a class dinner should come but once during our college course. It is true '84 tried to repeat their dinner in the junior year and failed, but it does not follow that '85 would be equally unsuccessful. Classes here before, I believe, have had successful junior dinners and '85 would do well to follow their example. If a class...
...Another attempt to form a Co-operative Society at Yale, on the model adopted by us, is being made. The papers are agitating the subject...
...that its bottom is but little lower than its banks, and consequently from heavy rains is convertible into a large lake. Such was the position of the Union army on the morning of May 30, when the booming of guns on the right of the line announces that an attempt is being made to crush keyes' division. Reinforcements are quickly hurried up, and a sharp all-day fight results in the retiring of the Union forces two miles. Instead of pressing the attack the Confederates retreated. The battles of Glendale and Seven Pines followed shortly without decisive results, other than...
...correspondent of the Spirit of the Times writes to that paper the following exposition of the faculty's position which he gleaned from one of its members. Speaking first of the necessity of some action and the failure of the first attempt he continues: "The best thing to be done, therefore was to collect as many colleges as possible and see what could be done. The conference was called, and, after much debate, the resolutions were adopted. The method of consideration was of attack, and apparently every contingency was provided for. The definition of professional was tacitly understood...
...left to the students. They may make mistakes, but they also learn to remedy them, and thus learn wisdom at the same time. Better mistakes with wisdom learned than to remove the chances of mistake by that emasculation of student life which will surely come if college authorities attempt to manage all their affairs and keep them in leading strings in season and out of season...