Word: making
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...announcement of Oral Examinations for next week calls attention to their status, and to some possible means of improving them in conformity with the plans of educational reform that are in progress at this University. Originally the Orals were intended to make certain that every undergraduate have a speaking knowledge of French or German, but they have proved in reality only a superfluous test of knowledge already attained in the elementary language courses. If these examinations are to continue in the future it seems desirable to change their name and purpose, in order that they may be more than mere...
...university officials have decided to allow the exercises to be held, but have ordered, the campus closed to the public and will make the "tapping" a purely Yale family affair. Not even the underclassmen will be supposed to be present...
Another proposition, that of building a new track, which has been needed at Yale for some time, is also to be carried out. This will be equipped with a small stadium, and will make it possible to hold intercollegiate meets at New Haven, a thing never before done at the field. Work will be started on this project in June, and will be completed some time next year...
...increase the facilities for tennis in proportion to the demand, a block of 48 tennis courts is planned. These will be begun this summer, and will be ready for play either in the fall or next spring. It is hoped to make these courts free as soon as possible...
Another teacher to make the supreme sacrifice, Richard Norton, educator, is to have a memorial service on Saturday. The same zeal that carried him to Asia in the cause of science made him one of the first American volunteers in France, in the early part of 1914. The ability which he showed in organizing and leading expeditions of research made possible later, the success of his greater effort...