Word: enjoyments
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...object of the club in taking this house was to furnish a place where the younger graduates mignt be comfortably taken care of and enjoy the company of the older men. It will also be a convenient headquarters for Yale men in other sections of the country who come to New York on business or to witness athletic contests...
...about with nothing to do but envy the elaborate hospitality of their richer class-mates; and the inevitable result would be that they would cease to entertain at all. Class Day would thus become a mere fashionable show, full of extravagance; a festival which the rich man would naturally enjoy, but which the poor man would have no share in. Any change which could lead to such a state of affairs can be regarded only as the worst evil which could possibly befall...
...policy. He gets what thousands of persons hereabouts would be only too glad to get for the same amount,- medical treatment for one year. Why then should any man of prudence look upon this small charge as an "unwelcome mockery." And if perchance he is so fortunate as to enjoy good health during the year he has what the ordinary policy holder has not, the satisfaction of contributing to the welfare of his fellows and the institution of which he is a member...
...fail to see the point of the argument that we should extend the exercises one or two days, because "there are now so many spreads. that the guests do not and can not enjoy them." I will not speak for more eating; but I do favor the setting apart of several hours of an afternoon for spreads, in order that they may be more of the nature of teas. Under the present arrangement Seniors entertain either in football clothes-as I have seen-or in a more suitable apparel, put on in much haste, after a rub down. With several...
This or a similar programme, covering not longer than two days, would give the members of the graduating class time to entertain their guests more fittingly and to enjoy the exercises themselves as they have not been able to do for several years. It would heighten the enjoyment of a very large majority of the guests and inconvenience very few. Those visitors who live in the neighborhood of Boston could as easily come to Cambridge two days as one if they cared to attend both days. To those who come from a distance one day more or less would make...