Word: hall
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...nine o'clock on the morning of Class-Day the Seniors are expected to assemble in front of Holworthy Hall, ready to carry out a programme arranged nobody knows when, and arrayed in a costume never worn of a morning except on this one occasion. I have no desire to make war upon the customs of Class Day generally, although I think that had the class of '75 instituted the rush around the tree, '76 would have done away with it and no murmur would have been heard. Had '74 started the custom of delivering the very superfluous "Ivy Oration...
...which the Courant gives of it we are led to infer that polite society is not the sphere for which the Yale man was created. "We would (sic) like," says the Courant, "to remind some of those gentlemen who took such delight in plunging from one end of the hall to the other in three steps, and bumping everybody on the way, that it would be well to take a few lessons either in dancing or etiquette." We thought at first that this little peculiarity must have proved quite unpleasant for all who chanced to be on the floor...
...societies the theory of government is so entirely disregarded that any settled course of policy is impossible, and the society is led on, step by step, by mere momentary whims of the majority, or by the influence of its affairs, until the original constitution is entirely forgotten. At Memorial Hall, however, the case is even worse than this, since there no constitution is to be found; for the "Scheme for carrying on the Dining Hall" was, as "A Director" has claimed, valid only for a year, and we are now left with merely a general understanding that the Hall...
...Dining Hall is at present managed as cheaply as possible without seriously injuring our health, and I think it is an open question whether the majority of students are not of opinion that if the grade of food were higher their health and comfort would be greatly improved; but there is no way of deciding such a question, and therefore, out of deference to the necessities of the few, the many are obliged to be content with inferior food, unless they are willing to pay at a private house a price which shall not only give them good food...
Thus, in looking over back numbers of the College papers, we find innumerable articles on the state of the Gymnasium, on the condition of the food at Memorial Hall, etc., which complaints are perfectly just, and so are generally published and read, although they become rather monotonous by repetition. Against these we have nothing to say, as it is only by reiterated complaints in the papers that the desires of the students are noticed by the Faculty or Corporation...