Word: hands
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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During the meeting for the election of class officers it was voted to hand down the '97 yell to 1900, the only other proposition having been to give it to '98; why was '99 left out? There are three good reasons for handing down our yell to the Sophomores. The first is that the syllables ninety-nine fit the rhythm of the yell incomparably better than the syllables nineteen hundred; the second is that Seniors have been traditionally most in sympathy with Sophomores, Juniors with Freshmen; and the third is that the '99 Freshman crew by winning the class races...
...assessors take the ground that heretofore they have permitted the Yale Corporation to hand in its own list of taxable property; that is, property not used directly for college purposes; and that the Corporation has neglected to include in this list a number of buildings which are not directly used for college purposes. The action of the assessors simply means that hereafter they will themselves determine what property is so used...
...devoted to the College, Dean Briggs discusses in a very interesting manner dishonesty in written work and the efforts of the Administrative Board to suppress it. The Dean points out the failure of the former ruling of the Board concerning the mere separation from the University of students who hand in written work not their own, and enumerates the reasons which led up to the adoption of the new rule of publicly posting the names of such offenders...
...soon as a student has finished his examination, he must hand his book to the proctor at the desk...
...other hand, the new plan proposed in yesterday's CRIMSON, seems a much better one. The arrangement of details would be very simple. For example, a platform might be erected in the Tree, and flowers thrown out from it in every direction. If it should seem best to have the men who do the throwing concealed, they might be stationed behind a screen of evergreens. The great advantage of this new plan seems to be that there could be no prolonged scrimmage, as the flowers, falling lightly on a compact mass, could never reach the ground...