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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...twenty-one in the scientific department. The number in the freshman class at the Sheffield Scientific School is an increase of fifteen per cent. over any previous class in that department of the University. More than sixty men have entered the law school this fall making this the largest class on the records of the school. Following the example set by the other parts of the University the medical school has entered a class twice as large as that of last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Notes. | 10/16/1888 | See Source »

...caught up and it was voted by a large majority to march with the Republican procession on Oct. 24. The freshmen then with due modesty, apparently thinking it presumption to vote for three candidates, limited themselves to one each, and it was decided that the three candidates having the largest number of votes should be considered elected. Mr. Kidder received 18 votes, Mr. Thompson 10, and Messrs. Cromwell and Watriss 9 each. Messrs. Kidder and Thompson were declared elected and after great excitement Mr. Cromwell was chosen to fill the third place. The following resolutions were then offered and passed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Class Meeting. | 10/11/1888 | See Source »

...first ballot for each office shall be informal. After the first formal ballot, all but the four candidates receiving the largest number of votes shall be dropped, and the candidate receiving the smallest number of votes at each successive ballot shall be dropped after that ballot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rules Governing the Election of Class-Day Officers from eighty-nine. | 10/11/1888 | See Source »

...first ballot for each office shall be informal. After the first formal ballot, all but the four candidates receiving the largest number of votes shall be dropped, and the candidate receiving the smallest number of votes at each successive ballot shall be dropped after that ballot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rules Governing the Election of Class-Day Officers from Eighty-Nine. | 10/9/1888 | See Source »

...captaincy of the nine or crew was merely a question of chance, and while oftentimes the choice proved a fortunate one, still there have been captains elected who were totally unfitted for their places. It may be well to remind the present freshman class that it is the largest one which has ever entered college, and that with the increase in numbers and a new vigor infused in athletics, the college has a right to demand of '92 a record of which it may not feel ashamed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/5/1888 | See Source »

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