Word: formally
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...peculiar provision of the gift of a new building to Yale, the fence will have to be removed to make way for it. The Yale alumni and undergraduates are protesting against any such action, and last week the matter was brought before the New York alumni in a formal way, and as a result a petition to the corporation has been drawn up, protesting the proposed location of the building. Copies of this will be sent to every alumni association in the country, and the protest will be presented to the corporation at the earliest possible opportunity. It is generally...
...study of history in some form, biblical or classical, may have been introduced into the curriculum of Yale College in its earliest years; but the first formal recognition of the subject was "the appointment of President Stiles to a professorship of ecclesiastical history in 1778. He held his professership till his death-in 1795-and after him it was held by Professor Kingsley from 1805 to 1817. There is abundant evidence that his interpretation of the field of ecclesiastical history was a very wide one; it was simply that he, an ecclesiastic, taught general history. I should be very loath...
...voting shall be secret, check lists being used. The class shall vote in ten sections, two tellers receiving and counting the votes from each section. Voting by proxy shall not be allowed. Whenever a candidate receives a majority of votes east on a formal ballot, he shall be declared elected...
...first ballot for each office shall be informal. After the first formal ballot, all but the four candidates receiving the largest number of votes shall be dropped, and the candidate receiving the smallest number of votes at each successive ballot shall be dropped after that ballot...
...interest in the matter, more letters have passed between the captains of the two crews, but no definite arrangement has been arrived at. As Cambridge began the correspondence, it was expected that a challenge would, before long, be sent to Harvard. It has not come yet, and unless a formal challenge is received before July 1, there will be no race...