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...have upheld the old studies and uplifted the new. You have given a new definition to a liberal education. The University has become the expression of the highest intellectual forces of the present as well as the past...
...Thursday, February 25. the Yale Financial Union issued its annual report, which showed that the receipts for the fiscal year 1902-1903. were $92.711, which was somewhat over $9,000 larger than the previous year, and the highest on record. This did not include freshman athletics or the minor sports, such as basketball, hockey and tennis. It is therefore no exaggeration to set Yale's financial receipts from athletics at $100,000 a year. Of this amount about $79,000 was received from gate receipts alone...
Professor Lapsley will enter upon his duties at Cambridge next fall. His appointment is one of the highest distinctions ever conferred on an American by an English university...
...president then in office shall call a meeting in the first week of November for the purpose of electing a nominating committee of ten. At this meeting nominations for the committee may be made to the number of twenty, and a ballot then cast, the ten men receiving the highest number of votes to constitute the committee...
...president then in office shall call a meeting in the first week of November for the purpose of electing a nominating committee of ten. At this meeting nominations for the committee may be made to the number of twenty, and a ballot then cast, the ten men receiving the highest number of votes to constitute the committee." It is also suggested that rule 4 be changed as follows: "The committee so elected shall nominate within one week at least two candidates for each office, in addition to the men at that time holding office...