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...circumstance that the Christmas recess began this year on the afternoon of a Tuesday, proved very tempting to a number of men who, from some reason or other, wanted to skip Monday and Tuesday, and go home on Saturday if not earlier. It would have made very little difference, except in principle, if only a very few men had gone home early, but this year the exodus was so general as to cause a good deal of interference in the teaching of some of the courses. This, of course, was hurtful to the college. The authorities must see that...
Then, too, there is the principle. The regulations say in black and white that a man shall not break his residence in Cambridge without sufficient reason. When, therefore, with such a resolution on the books, men are allowed to leave college before the recess without giving any explanation whatsoever there is evidently an inconsistency somewhere...
...question of remedying this inconsistency is one which the Administrative Board has under consideration. Every man who left college early at the Christmas recess, without leave, was required to fill out a blank stating the reasons of his early departure. The cases of all these men were taken under consideration and a number of them were found to have reasonable excuses. As a rule excuse was granted to men who lived at a great distance, men coming from the West or South, provided they did not leave unreasonably early. A large number of cases, however, showed that...
When Captain Loring made his first call for candidates for the sophomore crew immediately after the close of the Christmas recess, he had the satisfaction of seeing about thirty-five men respond. These were more than he could conveniently manage, and from that up to the present there has been a gradual weeding out of the bad from the good material, until now only sixteen men remain. Of these only two rowed in the freshman race at New London last spring, Thompson and Loring. Saltonstall, Williams, who was a substitute, Johnson, Bond and Waters are all in training with...
...following schedule of games has been arranged for the Yale nine during the Easter recess. The men will leave New Haven on the morning of Wednesday, April...