Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...chief points of the Yale method of distribution are these. Whenever a room is assigned to a student, he may retain it till the end of his course, or may give it up at the end of any academic year and draw for a choice again. An allotment of vacant rooms takes place in June,- the classes drawing for choice in order of seniority. The drawing is for choice of room, and not directly for the room itself. No one can dispose of his choice, or of his room. If any one is dissatisfied with his choice, he can drop...
...high schools should now be made to serve the purpose of the colleges of two generations ago while the scope of the universities should be so enlarged that they can serve as a field for the individual expansion of the students. With regard to the colleges which still retain the ancient rigid requirements of classics, Mr. Curtis says "no college can justly plume itself upon superior fidelity to the classics because it insists that they shall be a bed of Procrustes upon which every student shall be equally stretched." And yet he does not see any very desolate outlook...
...occasion of a ministerial crisis, while mere abstract interest in the question under discussion has been found generally unable to move them. Each party in the House always feels itself called upon to put forth its most strenuous efforts, the opposition to win the honors, the ministry to retain them. All this adds a color to the contests, in which we also receive training in parliamentary law and "practice in politics...
...Field should not prove sufficient, there is space for about 12 courts on the Agassiz Museum grounds, and also space for 10 courts on the Divinity School grounds. This latter ground, however, is controlled by the Divinity Association, who are very jealous of their own rights, and will probably retain control of their grounds...
...large audience which is invariably present at the winter sports. Among the faces in the graduates' seats were many that are familiar to the college men of to-day, while the presence of an occasional grey head served to show that the graduates of longer standing still retain their interest in the sports of their college days. Not withstanding the crowded condition of the gymnasium, the meeting was conducted, in the main, in a satisfactory way, with the exception of a few minor details, which will doubtless be remedied before the meeting of Saturday next. The sparring was unusually interesting...