Word: elects
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...corporation of Yale College have finally elected a president to succeed Dr. Porter. Professor Dwight, the president-elect, has proved an efficient and popular instructor, and the highest hopes are entertained for his success at the head of the college. The new president is said to be an ardent exponent of the new ideas of reform in collegiate work, and it is expected that his administration will result in placing Yale on a more radical basis. We welcome this new proof of the wisdom of the policy of Harvard. We trust that the work of President Dwight will demonstrate that...
Acting upon this vote, the student members of the Conference Committee have called a mass meeting in Holden Chapel to-night in order that the students may there elect a committee to maintain order in the yard...
...mass meeting of the students will be held on Thursday, May 20th, in Holden Chapel, at 7 p.m., to elect a committee to maintain order in the yard...
...noticeable changes in the elective pamphlet is the abolition of English VI for the ensuing year. This plan is one which deprives next year the senior class of any opportunity of enjoying this course. This year the course is not open to the junior class, and many juniors who could not enter the course and therefore intended to elect it for next year, are by this plan debarred from entering it. The work in the course, has always been interesting, and serves as a practical aid to other courses in the discussion of economic and technical questions which it affords...
...last Harper's Weekly contains a very complimentary sketch of the president-elect of Vassar, Rev. James M. Taylor...