Word: latters
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...events of the day will come in the afternoon. At 3.30 o'clock the Seniors will gather for the third time, and at 3.45 the graduates, three lower classes and Glee Club will also meet in the Yard, to join the Seniors in the parade to the Stadium. The latter will first march around the Yard, cheering each building, and will then follow the rest, at 4.30 o'clock. The chief feature of the Stadium exercises will be the ivy oration by David Rives Sigourney...
...Rhodes took up his subject with the beginning of hostilities at Fort Sumter. He emphasized the great needs of the North at the time--men, munitions, money and diplomacy, especially the latter. England was against slavery, but she was also very much in need of cotton and opposed to the United States tariffs; and the problem of keeping England neutral was one of the hardest faced by the Administration. The policy of Seward, secretary of State, seemed to be to embroil the United States abroad, hoping thereby to bring about a reunion at home. Troubled by the actions...
Three other phases of the war were touched on by Mr. Rhodes. He spoke a little of the finances of the country in 1864, and of the "debauch of flat money." He also dealt on Lincoln's unfriendly relations with Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, and the latter's withdrawal and subsequent appointment as Cheif Justice of the Supreme Court. And finally he considered Lincoln's high-minded plan of 1864: of paying to the slave states four million dollars for the giving up of their slaves, and the formation of peace. But there was no one else...
...University Hall to Appleton Chapel. Upon reaching the Chapel, the marshal and chairman will continue down the centre aisle dividing the pairs into the pews. After all have been shown to their seats, the marshal and chairman will return to their places, and at a signal from the latter, the entire assemblage will sit down. The same order of marching will be observed on leaving the Chapel...
University major and minor sport teams have met Yale in thirteen different branches of athletics during the present college year, and have been victories in ten of them. Yale's three victories were gained by the gymnastic, wrestling, and fencing teams, but the latter defeat was atoned for, when the University fencers defeated Yale in the intercollegiate meet, finishing two places ahead of their rivals. The gymnastic teams did not have a separate meet, but Yale won the intercollegiate meet, while the University team took only sixth place...