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...above, the present treaty is the first to include, extra-European powers. It is also the first general treaty in which English is an official language, a position it shares with French, which was the sole official version of the treaty of Vienna, while the treaties of Westphalia and Utrecht were in Latin...
...June 14, shortly before Commencement. The men will be elected on the basis of scholastic achievement and promise. In determining the choice, scholastic grades alone will not be the complete ground for decision, but the difficulty of the courses taken will be given due consideration. Intellectual achievement in extra curriculum pursuits will be considered in the decisions although these activities are in no way regarded as making up for marked deficiencies in scholastic ratings. For the final election this spring, regard will be had for special graduation honors and distinctions...
...time when the fever for the regulation of undergraduate participation in extra-curriculum activities has enveloped both Yale and Princeton, it is well that the problem be discussed with respect to conditions at the University. On the surface it seems desirable that as many students as possible should hold offices, that the burden of the activities should not fall on a few shoulders, and that the entire time of a few office holders should not be given for the benefit of the remainder of the student body. But it is doubtful whether the artificial method in vogue at New Haven...
...substance of the resolution is as follows: "In order to divide the extra-curriculum offices in the university more widely among the undergraduates, and keep certain men from taking up too much of his work, the offices have been divided into two classes, A and B, and will hereafter be subject to certain rules...
...History, Government, and Economics to other departments, the failure of the tutorial plan in the present system should be remedied. The average student derives almost no benefit from his fortnightly tutorial conferences, and until the middle of his Senior year looks upon them as an unpleasant and useless extra task to be hurried over and forgotten. Then, too late, he realizes his mistake and sees the connecting and comprehensive values his work has failed to gain...