Word: classe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clubs shall urge their members to change the elections to the Institute of 1770 so that the membership therein shall be increased to at least 150 men from each class, and that they shall be initiated therein at the rate of at least 15 men a week, beginning as early as possible in the Sophomore year...
...This agreement shall be effective with relation to the members of the class of 1918 and subsequent classes...
President Angel has had much to say since the crystallization of the plans for the residential halls concerning class spirit and the efforts which will be made to restore some of its lost values. Unlike countless hundreds of alumni, not to mention a few hundreds undergraduates, he does not view the division of the College by classes in the same sacred and hallowed light as they do. On the contrary, the President is convinced that the mingling of members of four classes in the residential halls, while it will be the death knell of the class as a unit, will...
This can be best maintained in one way at least by the preservation of the class as the most efficient factor of social solidarity. Of all bonds between Yale and alumni the class stands out as the most widely used, most generally respected. The effect has been good, for it has subordinated society, fraternity and school to their proper stratum, levelling the members of a class to one common denominator. Why can't it do as much for our subsequent social divisions--the houses...
President Angel admits that undergraduate and alumni locality have focalized around the class. Then why discard such a potential weapon, for one which has yet to be tried and which, no matter how successful, can never even gracefully imitate such an essentially democratic and all-Yale line of division as the class? Yale is vexed with too many social lines of cleavage now, without adding a basically artificial substitute for the most popular method of division yet found. The class is one of the few weapons which Yale possesses to prevent the beast from biting the hand that feeds...