Word: perring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...result of recent complaints the Yale chapter of Phi Beta Kappa is taking steps to raise its admission requirements. Among the various suggestions for improvement it has been urged that the high-stand men, amounting to ten per cent. of each class be admitted to the society, thus placing the system of election on a purely competitive basis. There are many objections to this plan, however, for if men were chosen at the end of their senior year under this arrangement, there would be no undergraduate chapter, and if at the end of their senior year under this arrangement, there...
Loving cups, per se, are about as useless objects as one can well imagine. They cannot be used to hold flowers, nor yet potations. As decorations they suggest proficiency at golf or the modern dances. But the idea behind them, the spirit which actuates a Yale class to present a loving cup to a Harvard class--or vice versa, more than makes up for their intrinsic uselessness. They stand for courtesy and friendship. Yet the presentation of cups to Yale or Harvard classes should not become a mere custom. A loving cup, given because it is the thing...
...Through a growth due solely to the addition of interest and loans repaid, the original endowment has now been swelled to $207,000. Repayments of loans is not forced, but it is found that, by a system of following up the borrowers after they leave College, over 60 per cent. of the needy students thus helped, eventually pay back both principal, and interest...
...abolition of beer at class meetings; would it not also be a fine thing to do away with cigarettes upon those occasions? We know--those who earnestly serve knowledge and truth cannot but see--that cigarettes are noxious; that of all men who die, at least ninety-three per cent have at some time smoked cigarettes...
...January 23. The results of the fifth round were as follows: Moody defeated Parsons, Marshall defeated George Gray, Kent defeated Pow Wow, Bryce defeated Ames Gray, Westengard defeated Cooley, Warren defeated Lowell, and Wyman was victorious over Beale. The present standing of the clubs in the competition follows: 80 per cent., Bryce, Kent, Marshall, and Moody; 75 per cent, Westengard; 60 per cent, Beale, Cooley, George Gray, Lowell, Warren, and Wyman; 20 per cent, Ames-Gray, Parsons...