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...College Office announces today that the special mid-year examinations will be held from December 18 to December 24, inclusive. The new military figures may return to their respective homes to take a much-needed rest before entering the third camp, and during that period of vacation no bugbear of tests to come will hang over them. The traditional antipathy of undergraduates toward the Office will certainly be effaced--temporarily, if not permanently. Benevolent rulers are now enthroned in University Hall, who minister to the needs of their subjects. The greatest of all needs was the force to push that...
...spite of the bugbear raised that Yale would try to force Harvard to play under the new undergraduate rule regarding eligibility, there has been, I have been assured, no suggestion of the kind between the two managements, and in the existence of the above agreement Capt. Hinkey and Capt. Waters will meet to settle by mutual consent all points not specifically covered. Such a meeting will take place this week, as it must come on or before October...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - I see by your paper of yesterday that the old bugbear "too much work in History 13" has made its periodical appearance. It seems that a number of the hard-worked students are trying to get block-reading substitutes for the reference system now in use, which has been perfected by the instructors at a great expense of time and labor. It no doubt is much easier to lounge in an easy chair and read a book or two in connection with a certain course than to sit at a desk in the library or in your...
...interests of the students might be shown by several instances, notably in matters connected with the ball nine, in changing the time of the senior elective examinations, and in undoubtedly' producing an effect on the minds of the faculty committees when the subject of annuals, that great bugbear of Williams, was under discussion. But even if this organization had exerted no influence, even if its sphere of action were smaller than at present, it is still an excellent institution, inasmuch as it is a step in the right direction, a beginning of a growth...
Class lives have always been a bugbear to busy seniors, but somehow or other this year there seems to have been less difficulty in writing them experienced by the present seniors than by their predecessors. Whether it is a proper pride in doing class work or the energy of the genial class secretary which has effected this, we do not know, but certain it is that a large proportion of the lives, very much larger than usual, have already been written and handed in. Some are still not done, and as the secretary wishes to have a complete...