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...being, it is presumed that the faculty exerted their power through having the right to say in what places students shall lodge, or what is equivalent, shall not lodge. In this way great moral suasion can be used, and as was the case Monday night, with a good effect. Many a freshman has reason to thank the faculty for their sudden, though genuine interest in his welfare...
...nearly 190 members, and the class of '83 was nearly as large. In the succeeding years, however, the size of the incoming classes fell off, and the Yale authorities were unable to attribute the decline to any more substantial reason than hard times. In the hope of counteracting the effect of the new inducements which Harvard was yearly offering, numerous concessions to the advocates of a more extended elective system were made. But for some reason the result is disappointing, for the present freshman class at Yale numbers only 134. On the other hand, the Sheffield Scientific School...
Yard tickets, for those giving teas, 10 cents each. For all others, 25 cents each. All persons buying yard tickets at the rate of 10 cents must present to the committee a written notice to the effect that they are going to give teas. All future sales will be open to under-graduates...
...failed to keep up with their work properly. Yet the force of this argument is greatly diminished when it is found that, in many courses, the harder working members of the elective have failed to complete the paper in the time prescribed. Another point to be considered is the effect such an examination has upon a man of nervous temperament, Few can have any conception of the strain upon a man so constituted who is endeavoring to reach a high grade upon the rank list, and yet sees the minutes hurrying by without bringing a commensurate amount of reduction...
...which Yale, '88, has broken written agreements, and refused to play the series out, because, for sooth, they did not care to take the time and trouble ! As for the News' claim that the freshman championship was acknowledged to be lost by Harvard, '88, quoting a letter to that effect, no one who had read the letter in question from an untiased standpoint could have helped seeing what the writer meant. He meant that the Yale game probably decided the championship, for if beaten there we had certainly no show of winning the 3rd game; but he never...