Word: news
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Until 1786 students at both Harvard and Yale, were ranked entirely according to social position. Rank lists of the classes were posted in the beginning of freshman year, and were eagerly awaited. Yale was the first to abolish the system and Harvard followed suit five years later. - Yale News...
...Columbia College Dramatic Club is soon to produce two farces, one entitled the "Buzzards," and the other "My Turn Next," the proceeds of which are to be given to the university crew. - Yale News...
...glad to hear it: It is probable that new dormitories will soon be erected at Harvard. They are to have all the newest steam heating appliances and a bath room, with hot and cold water, attached to each set of rooms. - Yale News...
Prof. Whitney of Yale, is corresponding member of the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences. - Yale News...
...pleasing news that Yale is breaking from her Chrysalis state as "a college" into "the higher life" of the university is now supplemented by the report that for some time the university has been busying herself in the acquisition of new lands and buildings with the purpose of enlarging her academical domains. We are doubly pleased to hear thus early of the beneficient results of President Dwight's administration. But we sincerely hope that that beneficence will not end at the purchase of buildings and lands. Now that Yale is "really and truly" a university, hope is cherished on every...