Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...HAVEN, CONN., Nov. 13. - The autumn meeting of the Yale Corporation was held this afternoon. The chief business was the adoption of a complete new system of commencement exercises, and the discontinuance of the valedictory and salutatory. The graduating theses of the Law and Scientific Schools and the Townsend orations of the academic department will be held as usual, and a new officer who will be known as "orator" will present the candidates for degrees to the President and Corporation. Classical music will be introduced and a trained chorus of male voices will be selected from the University Glee Club...
There was an unusually large number of New York men in the class of '92 and the plan for organizing them was first proposed in the spring of 1893. The first dinner was held on May 6, 1893 and the second on the night before Thanksgiving last autumn. At that time it was decided to hold the dinners semi-annually, one on the night before the Mott Haven games in the spring and the other on the night before Thanks giving. Almost every New York member of the class has joined the association and many men who live...
...Charlotte Howe, and was born in Framingham on June 1, 1868. He was educated in the common schools of Framingham and was a graduate of the Framingham academy and high school, class of '87. The year 1887-88 he spent at the Phillips. Exeter Academy, entering Harvard in the autumn. Throughout his course at Harvard he took excellent stand, paying especial attention to the classics and to history. At graduation he received honorable mention in Greek and in history, and among the commencement parts was assigned a disquisition. Howe led a thoroughly quiet, studious life at Cambridge and on that...
...upon the hills that clasp the homely landscape of their native village,- that he should work his wonders with the paltry material of their every-day life, that he should hang as fair diamonds of dew on Cambridge grass-blades as on their famous cousins of Mount Hermon. These autumn trees of ours that seem to have caught and kept the sunset in their branches till it looks as if a western evening-cloud had stretched itself in Fresh Pond meadows, are too ordinary for marvel...
...directors of the club in a recent meeting made a very important amendment to the constitution to go into effect at once. According to this new rule the membership of those who get tickets this spring will be extended to the close of the rowing season next autumn. The term of membership before was during the college year, so that tickets issued in the spring were only good until Commencement. Hereafter the men who do not join till spring will get as much rowing for their five dollars as those who join in the autumn. The new rule will also...