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...youngest graduate of Yale so far known is Charles Chauncey, 1792, who graduated at the age of fifteen years, twenty-six days, and afterwards became a leading lawyer in Philadelphia...
...placed in Memorial Hall by the class of 1863, in memory of their classmates who died during the war. The subject is from the sixth book of the Iliad and represents the parting of Hector from Andromache and his son Astyanax. The windows are five feet wide and fifteen feet high, and are of colored glass, no paint being used except in the flesh tones. The artist has been restricted in his use of the darker shades by the necessity of admitting as much light as possible into the Hall. One window is filled by the armed figure of Hector...
...first place, the number and kind of athletic contests of all sorts are regulated in advance by the faculty's committee on athletics. If the faculty decide that it is best to have but fifteen intercollegiate contests in a year, they can limit them to that number. The present number is such as the faculty consider consistent with the performance of other college duties. It is not left to the students themselves is not left to the students themselves to regulate. The days on which these matches occur, the time the teams leave Cambridge and return are all regulated...
Exeter has decided to build a quarter mile cinder track which will be fifteen feet wide...
...marks were not high enough. I believe, however, that none of my instructors would have denied that I was a hard-working and needy student. During my senior year my health was broken, through spending my spare time as a private tutor or as clerk in the library at fifteen cents an hour, and also through lack of food which could not always be procured. Several of my classmates were living as gentlemen on scholarships which they did not need. Some were drawing two of these benefices at a time. The future, however, proved to me that I was much...