Word: news
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...twenty-ninth annual banquet of the Yale News was held on Friday evening, March 16. Over 100 guests were present, including President Hadley, Walter Camp, and representatives of the Daily Princetonian and the Harvard Crimson. B. Sands '06 acted as toastmaster. The following toasts were responded to: "The Retiring Board"; "The Incoming Board"; "The Harvard Crimson"; "The Daily Princetonian"; "The Alumni"; "Athletics"; "The Faculty"; "American Universities"; and "Yale...
...opens with a nocturnal view of the palace at Mycenae, from the roof of which a watchman details in picturesque prologue, the long weariness of his watch for the beacon light, that should announce the fall of Troy. At length, seeing the beacon flash out, he shouts the good news to the people in the palace, but not without a dark word of foreboding for the future. Twelve old men of Mycenae, who form the chorus, now file through a side passage into the orchestra, chanting as they march...
...main the number is filled with matters of University news, which have accumulated during the past three months and with reprints of speeches or extracts from reports that have already been published. Consequently it will have a fresher interest for those of its readers who have not been in close touch with the University during the past months...
Optimistic undergraduates as well as those many graduates whose connection with Harvard is indissolubly bound up with traditions of classes will probably read with feelings approaching sadness the statement made in the news of the Winter Quarter that "It would seem to be the part of wisdom to recognize frankly that there are grave disadvantages as well as advantages in social organization along class lines, that as a result of the great growth of the University, the introduction of the elective system, and other causes, it has long since been outgrown, and therefore to abandon all efforts to revivify...
With Tuesday's issue of the News the 1907 board took charge. The officers for the ensuing year will be, M. S. Little, chairman; A. W. Sawyer, business manager; E. B. Chapin, assignment editor...