Word: variousness
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...expect the appearance of the Harvard Index, when the freshman underlines his name in the list of the Bicycle Club or Total Abstinence League and proudly sends it hime to his admiring parents, and so it may be interesting to note the differences between the annuals of our various sister colleges and compare them with our own less pretentions, but very useful representative. Yale's principal annual is the well known Banner which will shortly appear for the forty-second time, having been started in 1842. By the Harvard man, who is accustomed to the plain simplicity of the Index...
...days past some little comment has been passed by various papers on the sanitary condition of the buildings at Yale, owing to the recent deaths of persons connected with the college from typhoid fever. These seem to be reviving the general feeling of uneasiness which existed at the time of the Princeton scare. It does not seem possinle that any remediable cause of disease could be allowed to lurk in any of their college buildings...
...boat house belonged to the college authorities and was rented by them to the boat club. Originally, it must be remembered, the various halls such as Matthews and Weld, supported boat crews and the boat houses were owned by them. In time these organizations became very much in debt. The college offered to take up the debt, and accepted the boat house as payment. The rental paid by the boat club was merely six per cent, interest on the amount of the old debt assumed by the college. This interest amounted to about four hundred and eighty dollars a year...
...years, have necessitated the reorganization and development of instruction by subjects or departments. Each department of instruction, as for example, the department of classical philology, history, philosophy, chemistry, physics or natural history, is a unit which has a structure and growth of its own. Each has several teachers whose various courses of instruction should be arranged in a just order, and each has collections and apparatus which should be brought together, used harmoniously, and increased systematically, by the co-operation of all the teachers of the department...
Continuing through several number the HERALD-CRIMSON has published each day at the head of its columns verses clipped from various college papers, presenting on the whole we think a fair representation of the average run of college "poetry." Better than any words of our own could do we have thus afforded our readers an opportunity to judge for themselves of the general character of productions of this sort and to forecast perhaps what prospects the academic world holds forth to the great public at large for the production of future poetic genius. This prospect it cannot be denied...