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History begins whenever there is a record that tends to explain man in the relations I've indicated. An Indian spear head may be a record if used to explain man's social relations. Prehistoric is generally understood to refer to something before written record, but according to my definition it would refer to a time before any record...
...nevertheless the results of this agency were, we believe, illegitimate, and under the custom of the Yale athletic system cannot give expression to the opinions of, or bind, the students as a vote of theirs in mass-meeting would. The question is one of very serious import. We refer it to undergraduates and Alumni for consideration...
...show the interest taken in the Law Club meetings at the U. of P. it is only necessary to refer to a case recently argued in the "Sharswood Club," an undergraduate sitting as judge handed down an opinion which was type-written and occupied about twenty large sheets of paper...
...wish to protest against a practice which, during these base few days before the vacation seems to have a good many supporters, - I refer to the dodge of an absentee's getting some other man to represent him at lectures. The usual way seems to be that a man who wishes to go home before the vacation begins, asks some friend to sit in his seat at his lectures for him, so that he may not be marked absent. He then goes off, sometimes a week early, secure in the knowledge that his cuts cannot be detected...
This vote was understood to refer to the recommendations of May 2, '88, and the Athletic, Committee has felt bound to follow as well as it could the lines laid down in that vote, without forgetting its second and no less important duty, the fostering of the sports committed to its charge...