Word: alumni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...information of the report could be secured from New Haven, but it was learned that the announcement of the coach elected last Wednesday evening would probably be made public by the Yale Board of Athletic Control on next Wednesday, Alumni Day at Yale...
...offices, has at last come into its own. Naming thus a new kind of course that will be part of the reorganized Columbia curriculum, an action vaguely suggestive of giving a dog a bad name, Dean Herbert E. Hawkes of the college announced at a dinner of Columbia alumni that in his judgement "snap courses serve an excellent purpose." Such a statement, it would seem, would have few farther flung associations than that with the cultivated tastes of the student vagabond of Harvard. But closer examination reveals a similarity of educational ideas that is more than superficial...
When the stadium was built in 1903 it was considered capacious enough to hold a crowd at any Harvard Yale grid-iron battle. In recent years, however, with the annual game coming more into prominence, the ever-growing size of the University and its alumni body, and the resultant larger crowds, a remedy became necessary. The annual erection of wooden stands at a comparatively low cost seemed to have solved the problem. With the completion and occupancy of the Business School buildings in the fall of 1926, the Boston Building Commissioner decided that the wooden stands constituted a fire menace...
...graduates and the teaching staff, while the resources of the University have been multiplied five times, and the expenses of the Athletic Association have increased ten-fold; that intercollegiate athletics are now thoroughly endorsed by the Faculty; that the backbone of every endowed educational institution is its long-suffering alumni body, and that the graduates are therefore entitled to consideration; that we are lacking in generosity not only to our own graduates but to those of Yale in providing them with fewer seats for the Cambridge games than the Yale authorities provide our graduates for Bowl games; that a larger...
Fresh from its 51 to 45 victory over Holy Cross on Wednesday, the University basketball team, accompanied by Coach Wachter, Manager W. R. Rose '28, and five substitutes, journeys to Hanover today to meet the strong Dartmouth five in the Alumni Gymnasium. The contest is scheduled to begin at 7.30 o'clock...