Word: prom
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...restrictive action of the Faculty in regard to this year's Prom. has not resulted in any lessening of the interest felt by the University as a whole, and the shortening of the Prom. period will help rather than harm the various events. The three germans will be held after the Glee Club concert, January 20. A Civil Service Reform Club has been organized and a constitution formulated and nominations made for officers. Professors Hadley and Henry W. Farnam are interested in the movement...
...statue of President Woolsey has been completed and goes to the foundry this week. Professor Weir is designer. The statue will be set up on the campus, probably in May. Graduates have given the statue, especially those who were here in President Woolsey's time, and the '96 Prom. committee assisted in raising funds...
...three speakers for the Yale-Princeton debate have been chosen. C. A. Clark '97, Rice T. S. and McVay '96 L. S., Clark also winning the Thacher prize. Recent action of the faculty will limit the Prom. festivities this year to two instead of three days, a return to the first system. This change will help rather than interfere, and will insure a better maintenance of college work than was possible under the last rule...
...much more than keeping pace with her athletic prestige - and the fact is realized here, if not elsewhere. Yale may not be successful in the next few debates - but a sentiment has been aroused such as cannot fail to be of ultimate immeasurable good to Yale. The Junior Prom. report just issued shows that the democratic spirit here is not waning. There is a heavy decrease in expenses, yet the surplus is much larger than usual, due to increase in individual subscriptions. This will be devoted to worthy class and university purposes - such as a loan fund for needy students...
...Yale faculty this afternoon. The most momentous was to prohibit the freshman class from playing baseball with other colleges or from playing any game out of town. This was taken to punish '98 for the uproar that class created at the concert by the Glee Club during "Prom." week...