Word: evens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...audience, however, will be certain to hear the best-equipped authority in this country. Even more than his knowledge do we respect the dignity, loyalty and fair-mindedness of the former executive during the past seven year. In that period of bitter feeling and harsh criticism, he was unmoved by party or personal animosity and has been influenced only by his wide knowledge and upright character. With the aid of these faculties, he will explain to us the great problem...
...physical laboratory work, theory of errors, and thermo-dynamics), American history, English, plane surveying, gunnery, and two hours per week of military instruction during the first two years. All these courses, except gunnery and the basic military course, will be taught by the regular academic staff, and, if practicable, even gunnery will be taught by the department of mathematics of physics...
...into their legislatures bills to prohibit the smoking of cigarettes; the Postal Telegraph Company has been almost regulated out of business; the railroads will be so regulated that, by the time they are returned to their original owners, they will be unrecognizable. And now we are beginning to "regulate" even the undergraduates in their various extra-curriculum activities...
...content with reforming the curriculum, they must needs reform the extra-curriculum activities at Yale. And this is mainly the work of the students themselves. But in such an atmosphere of reform it would hardly be reasonable to suppose that even the irresponsible undergraduate could escape the fever. It is worse than a revivalist camp meeting! The paramount idea in this reform is, of course, that provided men do not give as much time to outside activities, they will devote more time to their studies. By preventing a man from doing more than a certain amount of athletics, writing, managing...
Tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock--at the regular meeting of Government 1a--in the New Lecture Hall, President Lowell will explain the regulations relating to the choice of elective studies. All Freshmen, even though they do not take Government 1a are invited to attend...