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Representatives of the Yale Union and the Princeton debating societies met Wednesday at New York and completed the arrangements for the debate between the two colleges. The question for debate which is to be held at Princeton on March 15, will be "Resolved, that the peaceful annexation of Canada would be beneficial to the United States." Yale has the negative and Princeton the affirmative side. There will be no judges...
...question which is not by any means settled by Yale's recent actions, although they may prove to be desirable. Even at New Haven there is not unity of opinion. Reports in yesterday's papers stated that the members of all departments of the Yale Law School had met and after thoroughly discussing the situation for an hour, appointed a committee of three to enter a formal protest against applying the undergraduate rule to baseball...
...colleges. At Yale the feeling that prayers should be voluntary is becoming stronger each year and doubtless it will not be long before she follows the example which Harvard set some half dozen years ago and have prayers voluntary to students. With us the abolishment of compulsory attendance has met with results far exceeding the expectations even of those who favored the movement. Naturally, under the conditions here, the number of students drawn to morning prayers depends upon the popularity and sincerity of the officiating clergyman, but there have been few instances in the past six years when Appleton Chapel...
...twenty he married and to support his wife found his life long occupation. Acting but poorly he became a cobbler of old plays. He began and ended his life hard up. Early in his career he killed an actor in a duel and was thrown in prison. There he met a Catholic and was converted from the Protestant faith, and when set free a T was branded on his thumb. Later he returned to the English church...
...average proficiency of their pupils. As the list of schools examined will be published each year in the Catalogue, the public can know when investigations have been made. But as no further information will be given, the public will not know in what fashion the schools have met the investigation or how they stand in relation to each other. This undoubtedly is not to be desired to a great extent, but it is a pity that some idea of the condition of these schools is not to be given. If only the names of those schools which met the approval...