Word: pasted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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During the past three months the campus at Yale has seen many changes. The Chittenden Memorial Library is rapidly approaching completion, while the foundations of the new recitation building, money for which has been given by an unknown friend of the university, have been laid. Its architecture is a mixture of Romanesque and Arabesque happily blended. That part of the building toward the corner of College and Chapel streets, near the site of the historic "fence," is to be partly circular in form and to have twelve sides. The stone work above the entrance arches will be magnificent. The arches...
...prospect of a vigorous and successful year in all its departments. New men have been taken on its corps of instructors, and new courses have been added to its curriculum. The merits of the elective system, of which our University is the chief exponent, have been demonstrated in the past. We expect with confidence that the result of the work done during the coming year will make the success of the system only the more clear...
...announcement concerning dividends for the past year will be made about Sept...
...Strawberry night to-night in Thayer 39, at 9 p. m. All past members are invited...
...Harvard and Yale. One reason given for this is that at Columbia the essence of college life, such a vital factor of undergraduate existence elsewhere, is entirely lacking. But this can hardly explain the almost stationary position which the college department of Columbia has now held for the past ten years. With such a city as New York to draw from, the number of students in the college should have increased rapidly were it not for a cause which is apparently slighted. The same narrow, pettifoging spirit still exists that was prevalent in every college a decade ago. The liberal...