Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...action of the Dartmouth faculty in suspending two editors of the "AEgis," an annual publication, for persisting in their refusal to give the name of the student who drew a cut for the paper in which the president figured, appears very hasty and inconsiderate. The cut in question was entitled, "Suggestions for a Chapel Window," representing the death of Ananis, with two young men carrying the body. Under the design was "1817," the year of President Bartlett's birth, "Rev. - -, D. D., LL. D." At the present stage of college tolerance, it is surprising that a bit of college pleasantry...
...Yale freshmen voted unanimously to accept the challenge sent by the freshmen of the University of Pennsylvania. The Yale News has a long editorial favorably commenting on the action...
...here to college most of us are between nineteen and twenty years of age, and if we are not old enough then to take hold of the world as a man should, it is likely that we never shall be. Why should the faculty have the direction of our action beyond the lecture-room? There must of course always be rules regarding the care of the buildings belonging to the University, but what rules or power beyond that...
...reconsideration of the Yale challenge is a matter for the freshman class to think of during the coming recess. It may have been settled technically at their last meeting, but it has not been settled decisively, we hope - for the action of the class was scarcely more than a mere evasion of the real question. It is well to bear in mind that the old adage of a "stitch in time saves nine" is as true as ever it was, and the feeling of distrust which is prevalent at Yale, if not done away with at once, will...
...part of an editorial which appeared in the Yale News yesterday. It is evident that Yale men are dissatisfied with the treatment which they have received at the hands of our freshmen. They understand that the matter has not been settled as yet, and are impatient for some final action. It is plain, however, that the Yale challenge was acted upon decisively by Ninety and as far as technicalities are concerned nothing has been done of which Yale can justly complain. Ninety has voted to row the Yale freshmen on the Charles, or not at all. Thus far, the matter...