Word: effective
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...students are obliged to find rooms in houses about the town. The result is that they have gathered themselves together into a large number of Greek letter fraternities, most of which are incorporated by state and own tasty Society houses. Naturally, this society life, while extremely pleasant, has the effect of forming just so many cliques; and of preventing a large acquaintance throughout the college. The rivalry which exists between the societies has worked for much harm in athletics as well as in the publication of the various under-graduate periodicals. This feeling between the fraternities has, however, fostered...
...valid. Before last year the club never went on a Christmas tour and the local concerts were quite sufficient to keep up a strong interest in the rehearsals. The disappointment this year was undoubtedly discouraging, but the success of the two concerts given since Christmas shows that its effect was not lasting...
Reports come from New Haven to the effect that Stagg may possibly pitch on the nine again. At present he says that it is impossible that he should do so, but it is believed that rather than see Yale lose he will again enter the box. Such a contingency is thought to be quite probable in view of the fact that the candidates for pitcher on the Yale nine have not yet developed anything like the usual strength. Stagg has already played on the Yale team for five years. In his freshman year he played third base, and since then...
Some eight months ago Mr. J. D. Rockefeller, of New York, originated the project of a university in Chicago. He at once communicated with the American Baptist Educational society to the effect that he would donate $600,000 as a nucleus for a college endowment fund. The conditions of his gift were that the money should not be used for purchasing a site or erecting buildings, but that the income should be used to defray current expenses. He also stipulated that $400,000 additional should be raised to be used for general purposes and the remainder to become a part...
...facts of the case are these: that it has for some time been possible for a student to graduate from Harvard in three years, provided he acquit himself successfully in the requisite number of courses; but that the faculty has passed no vote to this effect recently. We notice the clipping from the Sun editorially, not by way of criticism, but simply in order to correct a misconception. The rumor has its rise, no doubt, in the discussion which has been going on of late relative to a proposed change in the length of the Harvard course from four...