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...material evolution of the country at large follows. A nation like this must expend a large part of its labor in developing the material basis of its civilization. But is it not better to labor for progress by evolution than to risk progress by catastrophe? In American business today far too large a part is played by catastrophe...
...therefore, been decided by the Committee to expend a small portion of the subscription for an appropriate tablet, to be placed, with the permission of the College authorities, in Appleton Chapel, and to put the balance into a fund for needy students or into a scholarship. This gift to bear Dr. Peabody's name, and mention of the same to be made on the memorial tablet...
...Yale Financial Union has authorized its treasurer to expend, for the purpose of sending an athletic team to Oxford, twelve hundred dollars in case six men go or fifteen hundred dollars in case seven men go. The Union will in return receive one third of the net receipts of the games, the remainder to be divided equally between Oxford and the Queen's Club, on whose grounds the meeting will take place...
...entrusted to the students, there is certainly need of some decisive action. The maintenance of the custom should not be left to chance, but should be given into the hands of some definite person or committee. Otherwise, the temporary agitation in regard to the matter will soon expend itself without having done permanent good. It is apparently the duty of the managers of the different teams to attend to the matter, but if every senior class made some officer-the secretary for example-responsible for the proper preservation of the trophies and records of the year, the perpetuation...
...management with regard to the accomodation of the vast throng that will gather on Holmes Field on the 23rd to witness the Yale-Harvard game, and especially the holders of reserved seats in sections N, O, and P. It seems it would be eminently proper for the management to expend some money on those seats and put up backs so as to make them as comfortable as the seats in the other sections, the price being the same and certainly sufficiently large to justify this slight improvement...