Word: non
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...championship ball games this spring has resulted in a considerable increase in the interest taken by the students in this sport. Ferhaps the strongest proof of this increased interest is that furnished by the many "scrub" and "table" nines which have been formed among the, so to speak, non-professional players of the college. This result ought to be encouraged, for in many ways it is a most desirable one. In the first place, it proves a most excellent method to get the men out of doors for exercise, a result which is highly commendable by the faculty...
...that class feeling is a good thing, and that the experiment of university societies for social purposes failed at Yale. It is sometimes claimed that the senior societies govern the college press. The fact that on the editorial boards of all the papers except the Yale Literary Magazine, the non-society men greatly outnumber the society men, efficiently disproves this. The charge of favoritism, the writer dismisses as almost groundless, and asserts that many instances have been known where an intimate friend or relative of a prominent society man has failed to be elected worthy of the honor. Some detractors...
...some, tolerated by others, and loudly denounced by still a third party. All this antagonism arises perhaps from a misunderstanding of the term and its application to the college at large. A simple meaning is that it express a "don't-carewhat-happens" state; in other words, a non-emotional existence which has its good points when compared to the headlong whirl of the nineteenth century, and those that are bad when compared to the athletic standing of rival colleges. If indifference enables men to bear defeat or loss, either in the baseball field, in football, or at the boatrace...
...arts course is made elective, and the elections are given a wide range. Two courses of study, one of three and one of four years, are provided for the degree of bachelor of science including advanced mathematics, science, laboratory work, etc. A fourth course, in letters, is meant for non-technical students who do not study Greek...
...game between the Beacon's and Yale on Saturday resulted in a victory for the former by a score of 10 to 2. Mr. Nichols, '86, who pitched for the Beacons, played a perfect game. He made no wild pitches, gave no bases on balls, and completely non-pulsed his opponents who failed to make a safe...