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...Yale Book, on the plan of the Harvard Book, published two years ago, is soon to appear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT OTHER COLLEGES. | 10/20/1876 | See Source »

...gown. The attempt, however, proved futile, because the few men interested in the matter allowed the opportunity of making the change to slip away, through their inactivity in canvassing the subject, and in bringing its merits before the majority, who looked with the utmost indifference upon any plan for the restoration of a costume eminently that of scholars, and in perfect accord with academic exercise. This inactivity on the one hand and indifference on the other having resulted in the abandonment of the project last year, it now remains for the Senior class of this year to decide whether they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAPS AND GOWNS. | 10/20/1876 | See Source »

...large number have signified their hearty approval of it. From this it would seem, that if all would give the matter their careful consideration, the advantages of the proposed change (even looking at it entirely from an aesthetic point of view), would be apparent, and the execution of the plan could not fail to be accomplished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAPS AND GOWNS. | 10/20/1876 | See Source »

...three of his electives, and but forty-nine in his fourth study, loses his degree. Sixty per cent is not the average required, as has been reported, but the Senior who gets a degree without an average of sixty for the year will have calculated with marvellous closeness. The plan, in fact, is to have our last year made up of "all work and no play." Complaints come to us already that the conclusion of the nursery proverb will be fulfilled in our case. The University will lose that social tone for which it has so long been justly famous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/6/1876 | See Source »

...subscribers any inconvenience, and it will greatly simplify the somewhat complicated state of our books. The paper has been in existence, now, for three and a half years, and during that time we have lost something like two hundred dollars on subscribers' bills. It is plain that had the plan which we intend now to inaugurate been put into operation when the first number of the paper was published and been strictly adhered to afterwards, this sum would now stand upon our account as profit, instead of loss. For this and other obvious reasons, we have decided, upon conference with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/23/1876 | See Source »