Word: prospects
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...second speaker for Yale was H. Bingham, Jr. He emphasized the advantages making the president eligable for a second term. With the prospect of re-election the President would be likely to perform his duties more conscientiously than if he was to serve but one term. In a time of peril it might be absolutely necessary for the safety of the country to re-elect a man who already understands the condition of the country and the duties of the President's office. He closed with a summary of the arguments against the proposed ineligibility amendment...
...time; but the concentration of interest in the public debates tends to delay the recognition of the scholarly spirit which is cultivated in private by a steadily increasing body of students. People think that the undergraduate interest in debate is largely, if not wholly, stimulated by the prospect of intercollegiate contests; that it is effect rather than cause. They forget to regard it as but one instance of the general quickening of intellectual life in the college, and accordingly deny to the college due credit for the real vigor of this life. That it is vigorous they have no evidence...
...MCKITTRICK, Sec.REV. S. M. CROTHERS will speak at the Prospect Union this evening...
...semi-annual election of officers for the Prospect Union took place last night. Reports were read by members of the retiring board, and E. H. Goodwin '95, J. K. Whittemore '95, and F. W. Grinnell '95, announced their resignation on account of their graduation from college. The following officers were elected for the ensuing half year: President, R. E. Ely; vice-president, C. J. Wood; corresponding secretary, H. Endicott, Jr., '97; treasurer, H. G. Gray '97; recording secretary, J. A. Stinson; librarian, D. Cheever '97; auditor, F. M. Foster; steward, I. J. Davis...
...Birtwell then introduced Mr. Ely who outlined the work of students in the Prospect Union. He was followed by H. S. Roberts '97, who told of the students work in the educational department of the Social Union...