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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...closing of the H. U. B. C. Boat-House to all undergraduates, except members of the Club, has been carried out, as was proposed some time ago, and of which notice was given in the College papers. The Executive Committee have found it impossible to maintain order in the Boat-House, and to pay the necessary expenses, without taking this action. The necessary expenses a year are: Four hundred dollars for rent, about eighty dollars for water, and fifty dollars for janitor's work. Any member of the University can become a member...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. U. B. C. | 4/21/1876 | See Source »

...mind back several centuries to devote himself to the consideration of mediaeval institutions. It is certainly possible that this unsteadiness in matters of study may have something to do with our apparent fickleness in other things; but whether this be the cause, or the reason is to be found in the universal weakness of man, the fickleness remains. Rifle-shooting, but a few months ago all the rage, gives way now to a mania for knickerbockers; these in their turn will fall an easy prey to the first rival for the popular favor. There is yet hope that the interest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/21/1876 | See Source »

...more private and social societies might do the same. A disagreeable and often ill-managed responsibility would be lifted off of the shoulders of our fellow-students, and the money matters of the clubs, being managed by men who could give to them their whole time, would probably be found to assume a much less troublesome form than they at present have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/7/1876 | See Source »

SOME books have disappeared from the Yale Library, and the Library Committee have published a card in the Courant, threatening to make public the name of any person who shall be found guilty of taking a book from the Library. In reference to the new Chapel at New Haven, the Courant prints the following pithy editorial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 4/7/1876 | See Source »

...unwilling, however, to accept the statement without a struggle. If there is on the staff of the "comic journal" a Mr. Digby who asks questions of instructors to give the impression that he is much interested in what he is studying, is there no one to be found elsewhere who really has the interest which the distinguished artist assumes? Are there not many men, on the other hand, who, not having any particular interest in what they are doing, nevertheless make no pretence to seem interested? There are, I think, three classes of students, - those who have a real interest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LAST STRAW. | 4/7/1876 | See Source »

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