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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tried and which, no matter how successful, can never even gracefully imitate such an essentially democratic and all-Yale line of division as the class? Yale is vexed with too many social lines of cleavage now, without adding a basically artificial substitute for the most popular method of division yet found. The class is one of the few weapons which Yale possesses to prevent the beast from biting the hand that feeds it. --Yale Daily News...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 10/4/1929 | See Source »

...would seem that a perfectly workable system of distributing the application blanks through the registration envelopes could be developed. It is the necessity of filling out the blanks, buying coupon books and paying for the tickets all at the same time that slows up the present method. By distributing the blanks through the envelopes and having them sent to the ticket office by the applicant, the greater part of the evils of the present system would be eliminated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STANDING IN THE RAIN | 10/3/1929 | See Source »

Because of the fact that the limit has finally been reached, in the future, a change will be made in the method of admission. Previously if a man's entrance papers were in good condition, his application was accepted at once. This year, however, no applications for next fall will be accepted until March, when notifications of success or failure to gain admission will be sent to all applicants up to that date. In case the quota is not then filled, applications will continue to be received until the full number of desirable students is obtained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUSINESS SCHOOL FILLED TO MAXIMUM CAPACITY | 10/2/1929 | See Source »

...episode and took up another stunting ship immediately. The Army Air Corps has a questionnaire which flyers must fill out after accidents. Last week, newspapers had fun printing Flyer Doolittle's report on his Cleveland mishap. The phrases were as short and compact as their author. His "description of method of leaving plane" was two words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Sep. 30, 1929 | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...department and the unadvisability of having any divisional examinations so soon in the fall that a student has only time to register and attend the first meetings of his class before he finds himself taking a series of examinations. The difficulties which have arisen from a haphazard method of notification can easily be eliminated in the future but the question of whether the dates of the examinations have been wisely set raises a more controversial point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DIVISIONAL EXAMINATIONS | 9/27/1929 | See Source »

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