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...scene at the entrance to Appleton Chapel last night was not surprising considering the intense desire to hear Professor Drummond. Yet it seems imperative that for next Sunday evening, efforts should be taken to prevent a repetition. The public refused to heed their instructions and discourteously poured into the places which were reserved for the students and their relatives. It would not seem too radical a measure, then, to let it be known that the service next Sunday will not be open to the public, but only to students and those who clearly accompany them as friends. If such...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/17/1893 | See Source »

...each individual player. Freshman nines are notoriously slack in their work at the beginning of the season. Toward the end they wake up to a sense of what they are aiming to accomplish, but too often their eyes are opened when the critical point has passed and defeat seems inevitable. They then rally, settle down to serious work and close the season, showing the college what might have been done if they had more prudence and foresight. Such a method of training is unscientific as it is discreditable to each individual member of the nine. Those who have watched...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/13/1893 | See Source »

This building cost about $200,000 has a seating capacity of over 1100, and as the proposed alterations are to be made for the purpose of increasing this capacity, it would seem that the idea in the last President's Report suggesting the erection of a new building has been given...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chapel Service at Yale. | 3/24/1893 | See Source »

...there will be no further abuse of the present privileges. If it is not, however, we can safely say, that the threat of closing the gallery will not be found to be a hoax, and that the Board of Directors will adopt that or any other measure that may seem necessary to accomplish their purpose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/24/1893 | See Source »

...twenty one chapters describe various excursions which the author made in the White Mountains about Chocorna Lake. The reader is interested in the movements of a human being and the descriptions of birds and trees and flowers seem to be mere incidentals, yet in reading the book one finds that besides being delighted with a story, one is learning lessons, unconsciously learned, but valuable still. It is the faithful record of what may be seen and heard in the world of nature by one who will use his eyes and ears. There is an excellent index...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/20/1893 | See Source »