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...easy to exaggerate, as these critics doubtless do, swayed as they are by indignation over a condition which greatly needs improvement. One must not forget, for example, the special interest clubs of the University, the well- attended extra lectures and the various publications. Certainly no separate indictment of Harvard or even of Memorial diners is in order. Much less can it be charged that the American college, because of its shortcomings, fails in use fulness; that its graduates are not above the average in intellectual interests...
...committee which has in charge the bettering of undergraduate English has, therefore, a large task before it. To require students who are deficient in their literary expression to take an extra course in English is a doubtful remedy. English A should give a man the requisite fundamental knowledge which a further, uninteresting, dry course would not augment. The objection to English is not in the English courses but in other curriculum departments. The remedy is not in forcing more English down the throats of delinquents, but in making them utilize what they have. Assuming that students who have passed English...
Second, the new Council will take charge of holding the undergraduate elections, and will make the arrangements for extra-curriculum events, such as the Freshman reception, which duties have been discharged in the past by the Yale Daily News...
...subscription price is $3.00 for each member attending the dance and $2.00 extra for each lady. No name will be considered unless accompanied by a check for the specified amount...
...changes; first, making the Council representative of the college as a whole by having it consist of seven seniors, five juniors, and three sophomores, instead of seven seniors only, as has been the custom at Yale heretofore. Second, the Council will take charge of holding the undergraduate elections, and extra-curriculum events, such as class receptions, etc., which duties have been discharged in the past by the Yale Daily News. The third provision is that the elections be held at the end of May instead of in October, so that the Council can be organized and ready in the fall...