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...kind or another are constantly being demanded. The most pressing need now is some method of lighting the library during the evening. The importance of this step has been shown by the numerous pleas for electric lights in the library in the different college papers. It is seldom that in any question concerning the internal affairs of the college the sentiment of the undergraduates and instructors is unanimous, but the benefits to be derived from lighting the library are so manifest as to make all those who are in the habit of using the library anxious to see electric lights...
...look forward to the Yale-Harvard and Yale-Pennsylvania races with reasonable hopes of success. In the matter of the nine, the college is somewhat downhearted. Stagg, it is said, has absolutely refused to play next season. But Yale has a way of persuading delinquents in athletic matters which seldom fails of success, and it seems scarcely possible that she will be represented on the ball field by a team in which Stagg is not included. Dalzell, the only remaining candidate, was change pitcher of last year's nine and is considered a very promising pitcher. He has great speed...
...least creditable part of their literature, being usually a disjointed mass of anecdotes and chronicles. The state of society and the evolution of customs are never described. The critical spirit, moreover, is entirely lacking and although the sources of information are given with painful minuteness, their trustworthiness is seldom ascertained...
Professor Shaler said, yesterday, in one of his courses, that he was much better satisfied with the new system of voluntary recitations than with the old system of compulsory attendance. Under the old system an average of 75 per cent was seldom maintained for a month. Now an average of 90 per cent is often sustained for months at a time, with classes containing 250 members...
...civilization these lectures cannot fail to be attractive. Not only is the subject a most interesting and instructive one, but the able and pleasing manner in which Prof. Toy lays his subject before his hearers is a charm in itself, and an opportunity of hearing him, so seldom offered us, should be taken advantage...