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...students on subjects suggested by the director, followed by discussion and criticism of them. At the beginning of the term the professor prepares a list of subjects, theoretical, practical and historical, from which each of the members of the Seminar chooses two or more which he agrees to present during the term. A programme is made out, and one or two of these essays assigned to each session. The subjects being known beforehand, each member of the society is expected to prepare himself for the discussion which follows the reading. Such subjects as the following are assigned: Value, Banks...
Next year the present splendid infield of the Boston nine - Morrill, Burdock, Wise and Sutton - will be retained, and Buffington will also be a member of the team. Richardson, Rowe, Brouthers, Galvin, Force and Foley have been engaged by the Buffalos. The Chicagos will only make one change, letting Quest go and replacing him by Gerhardt, if the latter be reinstated. Ewing of the Troys has had several very tempting offers, and will without doubt play as change catcher for Chicago or with the New York League team. The Clevelands have retained nearly all their present nine, including Glasscock, Dunlap...
...present graduating class is indebted to Moses King for a convenient pamphlet for class day. Its contents comprise...
...illustrated paper on "The Evolution of the American Yacht," by S. G. W. Benjamin, in the July Century. It is said to show the growth of the sailing-vessel, from the Dutch "pink" and the invention of the first schooner by an American in 1713, down to the present time...
Quite a number of visitors were present at the last chapel service of the year to see '82 make its final bow to the president. It is one of our most pleasing customs at Yale, that in accordance with which the senior class remains daily, after the other classes have departed from chapel, and pays its respects to the president as he proceeds down the centre aisle...