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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...upper classes of the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale have got up a petition for a four years' course. It has with few exceptions met with decided approval. The freshman class has not yet been canvassed. Later the petition will be placed under the management of a committee elected by the senior class, which committee will send to all the graduates envelopes enclosing resolutions and slips for a positive or negative vote. The vote of the graduates will be sent in with the petition, but it will not be submitted to the consideration of the faculty until the corporation meeting...
...endless preliminary manoeuvering to get in the front rank, which would be most tiresome to the spectators. The Class Day officers would be powerless to keep the men from fighting for front place. There would be inequality of opportunity from the very start. Then when the crowed had once got around the Tree, there would be a block instead of a lively scrimmage. The dozen men immediately encircling the Tree would be almost the only ones to get flowers. They would probably tear away all they could. Or, even if prompted by more generous motives, they would be unable...
...debate. It can rarely happen that any member of the team will have any thorough knowledge of the subject assigned or can startle the world by any really new thought upon it. Knowledge, both of the acts involved and, of the pros and cons of the argument, must be got up between the time of giving out the subject and the time of the bebate, and it seems to to me immaterial whether such knowledge be obtained at first hand from men who have it, whether members of the faculty or not, or whether it be obtained at second hand...
...Royalist of the Royalists, was elected governor. After the Restoration his government became tyrannical in the extreme. An aristocrat himself, he had no sympathy with the common people. With the assistance of a group of wealthy planters he attempted to get rid of popular elections. Having in 1660 got an assembly to his liking, he did not dissolve it for sixteen years. The effect of this abuse was to drive many Cavaliers to oppose Berkeley, who in turn became more arrogant than ever...
...arrived at the bridge before the crews. When the crews arrived with the launch cheers were given for Mr. Lehmann and Goodrich and Perkins. The crews started at 12.50, Perkins's crew catching the water first. They kept the lead only a short time, however. Goodrich's crew soon got ahead and increased the distance steadily. This crew rowed the quicker stroke all through the race, for part of the time making 36 to the minute, while the other crew reached 34. Both crews, however, rowed a splendid race. The make-up of the crews was as follows...