Word: classe
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...annual meeting of the Senior class all business was suspended for a time while the "rowdy and baby" element threw chalk, towels, and other destructive missiles at the gentlemen of the class...
Princeton.- The Senior class is too fond of cutting Chapel...
...think the Advocate's suggestion to change the Ivy Oration to a Tree Oration should meet the approbation of the Class. When it was discovered that the ivy planted near the Library served only as a bait to the white ants, ruthless hands were ready to tear down the offending vine, and no one seemed to mind the sacrilege. It would be very foolish now to revive ivy planting, -a custom which has nothing whatever in its favor. The exercises at the Tree, however, need additional attractions, and if we can have a bright oration at that time, - and there...
...understand that the Faculty have satisfied themselves that certain members of the Senior class have been abusing the privilege of voluntary recitations. Accordingly this privilege has been taken away from them for the space of two months, and the Faculty have warned others that they were in danger of having their privilege taken away in a like manner. No fixed number of cuts is allowed, but each man's case is treated by itself; hence it is impossible to regulate one's cutting by any fixed rule, and each must decide for himself what "abusing the privilege "means...
...amusing, though it gives us rather a startling idea of the company Yale men expect to meet at dinner-parties. The Editors of the Courant are disturbed in their minds because what they "considered a harmless joke - to the effect that there were twenty insane persons in the Senior Class - has been copied, in sober earnest, into nearly every college paper, large or small, in the country." The characteristic American amusement of telling untruths which are not meant to be believed is sometimes dangerous, when the stories told are not big enough to be improbable...