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Word: alumni (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since this would never be printed in the Alumni Bulletin, I send it with the hope that you can print it as my humble opinion of a battle lost as well as poorly fought. Perhaps I am precocious as an alumnus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...indifferently supported. Finally, however, when the Student Council discovered from the Dean that there was not a chance in a million of the Faculty's ever approving the absence of any regulatory system, it wisely turned the whole thing over to the Faculty without comment. And, as The Yale Alumni Weekly points out, that body will in the near future probably restore itself to the temporarily suspended capacity of "guardians of undergraduate honesty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WITH OR WITHOUT | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...change is partially due to pressure from alumni, who have informed the school authorities that while it was all very well for the Duke of Wellington to say that Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, it is more important now to win the Davis Cup or the Wimbledon championship. Another factor is the deserting of the students themselves from cricket in favor of tennis. Eton will start off with eight hard courts as an experiment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ETONIANS DESERT RUGBY AND CRICKET FOR TENNIS | 3/9/1928 | See Source »

...Bingham said that he was encouraged throughout the meeting by the feeling that Harvard undergraduate body with its deep interest in football was behind him anti exclusive of the alumni and their friends would probably make up a tenth of the spectators in the stadium. Both myself and the secretary of the Alumni Association feel that if the undergraduates can get any fun out of watching football games they should be accommodated in so far as they do not conflict with our other plans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE GAME FIXED WHEN MOGULS CONFER | 3/6/1928 | See Source »

...issue of the moment is the proposed internal reorganization of the university, the central idea of which is the establishment of a Third College. For there seems to be among the faculty, the alumni and the undergraduate body a concensus that a fundamental change is imminent in not only the administrative machinery but in the purpose and method of Yale education. This feeling is the result of the sound observation of the above groups regarding some of the evils which not only threaten that university but have attached themselves to all institutions of higher education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE THIRD COLLEGE | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

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