Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alumni of the University do not require tickets for themselves, since they are entitled to join the President's procession. In this procession, the alumni will take their places in order of seniority. The older alumni will during the Commencement exercises, have places set apart for them upon the platform. The younger members of the alumni-will have seats reserved for them elsewhere. Due however, to the rather limited number of places, it may be necessary for some of the graduates to stand...
...undergraduate life to understand what the conditions really are. There are too many men, and the three years are too short, for general acquaintance; the tendency is therefore to split up into smaller units within a class, thus bringing into the situation another new element which, from the older point of view, is perhaps not quite satisfactory...
...cent, for science, all results in but 244 men going to Sheff as against 560 to the college. This in itself is a considerable factor in he lack of unity, which the college undergraduates now feel, and which a good many alumni would like to see changed to the older conditions...
...With no ready means of meeting each other en masse as classmates in the old sense, there remains the fraternity system as the only remnant of the older social Yale that contributes to solidarity and common interest. And how are these institutions functioning in this respect? It is obvious that, with classes running to over 500 men, they cannot be functioning in the old sense at all. We are speaking now of the Junior class situation. When there were 275 men in the Junior class there were three fraternities of 36 men each, and a fourth with 20, that...
...older day not all but most of the men who were eligible for fraternity membership had the opportunity. But, out of 500 men, not more than 200 have that opportunity today on the first elections. Either the Junior fraternities will have to consider the advisability of taking more men each, or there will be a need of more fraternities. That much the same situation extends over into the new Senior year, which now has 150 men instead of the 250 of 30 years ago, is no less open to study. If the college is to go on adding into itself...