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Robert Winston has been engaged as trainer by the officers of the Yale Ath. Association, and he will hereafter be in the gymnasium to coach men who wish to take part in either the winter or spring games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/14/1886 | See Source »

...arguments in favor of an elective system such as ours, this one of note-taking would seem to be most powerful. In the great majority of our courses text books are either wanting or are of only subordinate importance; and the student is made almost entirely dependent on his careful attention, quick perception and selective faculties to obtain in proper shape a digest of the instructor's lectures. These digests, together with the results of outside reading, give the student a collection of facts far superior to the best of the text books. This may be said advisedly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Value of Good Notes. | 1/14/1886 | See Source »

...that is both disgraceful and thoroughly out of place. There is no reason why attendance, as long as it must be, should not be prompt. It used to be regarded a freshman trait to come into chapel a minute or more after the bell had ceased ringing, but now either upperclassmen must be called freshmen or late attendance at chapel must be looked upon as a dignified offence. The former seems to be the more natural conclusion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/9/1886 | See Source »

...systems as actually at work in Harvard and in Yale shows, then, this remarkable fact. The irregularity of the average Harvard student is from a little less than three to five times as great as that of the average Yale student. The former is off duty, either from choice or compulsion, rather more than 16 per cent of his time; the latter from less than 3 and a third to a trifle more than 6 per cent." He gives strong testimony to the advantage he gained from the prescribed course, under which he studied. "Like him (Prof. Palmer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eduction, New and Old. | 1/6/1886 | See Source »

Although it is not the purpose of the CRIMSON to enter into politics, yet as there is one subject now prominently before the country, into which the courses in Political Economy enter, viz., the silver question, we would suggest the expediency of procuring lecturers, either at home or abroad, who would treat the subject in the impartial way in which socialism was treated by Rev. Mr. Brooks. Where is the Finance Club? A stirring lecture from some prominent financier or able business man would do much to gratify a widespread interest in college. Active legislators are prone to sneer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/5/1886 | See Source »