Word: closing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON.-Many students are unable to sleep well after hard study without first drawing the blood from their heads by bodily exercise. They ought to spend an hour in the gymnasium at the close of their day's work, and go to bed immediately on returning to their rooms. It is presumably to allow this that the gymnasium is opened in the evening. But the benefit is lost to a great extent by closing at so early an hour. Exercise is stopped at 9.30. The student must leave his study before 8.30. To go to bed immediately after...
...field, some premonition of success for the blue. The only thing which can destroy this prestige is work. An honest and determined effort on the part of each candidate which shall not be relaxed when a place has once been won, is absolutely necessary for ultimate success. Close attention to the directions of the captain and implicit obedience to his orders will go far towards instilling a spirit of self-confidence into the minds of the players themselves, and invoking reliance from the supporters of the nine. Individual glory must be considered secondary to that of the team. The power...
...correspondent writes from Yale to a New York paper that he thinks her inferiority in boating is largely caused by the close policy carried out by the managers of the Yale navy. It has been their policy during the last few years to keep everything about the 'varsity crew secret, and to allow no one to approach them white on the water. They never pull against another crew till they meet us for the final tug on the Thames. The only method which they have of ascertaining what speed their crew can get on is that of time rows...
Hereafter the Christmas vacation at Yale will be only two weeks instead of three, and the term will close a week earlier in June...
...president during the last year. It not only covers the work of the year but contains a general survey of the work accomplished during the last ten years, the period of his administration. A comparison is made of the state of the museum in 1873 and 1883. "At the close of 1873 the museum building covered about 9, 400 square feet of ground the buildings and collections then represented an expenditure of about $200, 000. From that time to the past academic year the new buildings and collections represent an additional expenditure of more than $500, 000, in addition...