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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...expensive hall and those in the less expensive. If the first of these statements was correct probably the second would be true; but the first is not correct. The expenses necessary to the new hall over and above those at Memorial are only about one thousand dollars a year. Even supposing that at the start there were but three hundred boarders in the hall, the increase in price to each one would on this score amount to less than ten cents a week. This difficulty is only a fancied...
...which we are convinced cannot be. When different men suggest seventeen, eighteen, nineteen or twenty-two men at tables of fourteen seats, they simply express the limit, to go beyond which they believe would seriously endanger the social life. For ourselves, we think that it would be unwise even to exceed the proportion of twenty men to fourteen seats...
...feel opposed to the extension of this system or to the introduction of any system which seems largely similar. They believe that the opportunity for companionship and leisurely intercourse with intimate friends is one of the greatest services Memorial renders. The opportunity is so highly prized that many students, even when dissatisfied with the food furnished, still prefer to remain in the hall in order not to be deprived of it. When students ask that this opportunity be preserved, they ask, not that a sentimentality shall be indulged, but that a powerful and beneficial influence in their lives shall...
...heartily congratulate the nine on its victory over Brown. That after the disappointments of the last week, the nine should gather itself together and win from so strong a team was beyond the expectation of even the most sanguine supporters. It is encouraging indeed...
...entirely exclude the poor students from the campus. South Middle College will probably be torn down this summer, and when this old dormitory is gone there will be only about fifty rooms on the campus that will be within the reach of the man of ordinary means. It is even held by many prominent Yale men that the university had better refuse such a gift as Vanderbilt's if the acceptance is to result in this...