Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...several important changes. One of these changes related to the admission of new members, and aimed at making the society in the future one of active naturalists only. According to the old constitution, amendments have to lie on the table two weeks before they can be acted upon, so action on the constitution as amended and changed by the committee, was deferred until the meeting on Dec. 10th. A good many suggestions were made by Prof. Shaler, Prof. Farlow, Dr. Mark and Mr. Nolen, '84, about the kind of work the society ought to undertake. All agreed that original, independent...
...committee ought to submit to the students their objections, stated specifically, and let them make an effort for change. The committee may claim that they did so last year with no beneficial results; but the method of their action then was so distasteful to the undergraduates that the attempt on their part at radical change was not genuine and so came to nothing. Then the idea of faculty interference in athletics was so novel and disagreeable, that the students simply bucked against it recklessly. Now the idea of interference, although no less disagreeable, perhaps, has lost all of its novelty...
...foot ball hearing on Monday is to be held on that day because there is a faculty meeting on Tuesday, and the committee say that action must be taken before the following faculty meeting, which does not come until two weeks later...
...rumored that the action of the faculty committee with regard to foot ball was confirmed by the non-appearance of several waiters at Memorial Hall, who were laid up at the recent match...
...Yale-Harvard freshman game which was arranged for to-day at New Haven, has been postponed at the request of the Yale team, although no satisfactory reasons have as yet been given for this sudden and uncalled for action on their part. It is rumored that several players who took part in the game last Thursday and are expected to do good work for Yale on the freshman eleven, went out of training rather suddenly Thanksgiving evening, and have not as yet recovered from too much "turkey." Unless Yale can give a satisfactory answer to Harvard for her refusal...