Word: says
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...anyone who has ever had an examination in U. E. R. on a hot June day, it will be an unnecessary statement for us to make when we say that an examination held in that room is rather a test of physical endurance than of knowledge. But there seems to be such ignorance among those who have charge of our examinations in regard to the ventilation of this room that year by year examinations are held in it in spite of the great heat and the bad air which are its chief characteristics. We wish to publicly call attention...
...corporate powers, and the legal effect of acts done by or on behalf of a corporation in occasioning legal relations between it and outsiders. The subsequent portion of the work treats of the rights and liabilities of the persons having interests in the corporate enterprise; treats, that is to say, of the legal relations subsisting with respect...
...notice was printed in Thursday's issue in regard to the Sauveur School of Languages, which will be held during six weeks of this summer, as in the last few years, and we wish to say a few words about it. This school seems to have found a solution of the problem which has been puzzling the brains of educators for a number of years past,-how to teach modern languages in classes so that they may become real and live to the students. The scheme is to educate the ear as well as the eye by assiduous practice...
...defense of the society system, the writer says that the societies are put at a disadvantage in one respect, because they do not, and will not offer explanations to their assailants on account of this very secrecy. The objection to class societies that they tend to produce too great exclusiveness, and to magnify class distinctions, is met by the reply that class feeling is a good thing, and that the experiment of university societies for social purposes failed at Yale. It is sometimes claimed that the senior societies govern the college press. The fact that on the editorial boards...
...around that our crew has been rowing in very fast time. From one college paper they pass to another, until by continued reiteration they gain weight and are believed even by some Yale men themselves. To some extent this was the case last year, and many were heard to say after the race why, I thought they had made such good time in practice. Why had they thought so? simply from believing rumors which start originally from no one (but the originator) knows where. The fact was that the crew had never done anything in practice that could be called...