Word: semis
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...undoubted need and trust on the part of many of our higher seminaries of learning, there are diverse reasons, more or less radical and cogent, more or less obscure or plain. First of all, this temper is a reaction against the spread eagle and unkempt oratory of frontier and semi-civilized congressmen in the old days whose deliverances in the Capitol were often grotesque and amusing - speech run mad and descending into oblivion in a very whirlwind of sound. Diseased oratory should give place to orators duly taught by our colleges, which exist to teach uses. It is treason...
Though, during the lull in athletics and the more widely noticeable events at Yale, which is necessarily brought on by the season of the year and the near approach of our semi-annual examinations, the university is brought but little to the outside world, there is, in reality, a good deal of life and activity within her walls. It is an activity in the inner and social life of the university and in preparation for the work of the coming year. President and Mrs. Dwight who have already given a reception to the students of the scientific department, give another...
...Semi-Annuals at Yale begin a week from next Monday...
...Glee Club-Pierian game was set for two o'clock but as might have been expected did not get under way until half past two. As soon as the two teams lined up, it was evident that the Glee Club was heavier, and had more semi-professionals, or men who had played before, than the Pierian. Nothing daunted, the Pierian started in to win through superior skill. Unluckily the skill did not seem to show itself at the right time, or even at any time. When play was called, some good rushing by Faulkner carried the ball quite...
...Leighton, secretary of the torchlight committee. It is desirable that as many transparencies and special features as possible may be prepared. Every department of the university will be represented, and it is therefore possible to make the procession a success in every sense of the word. At the semi-millenial anniversary at Heidelberg, the special features of the procession of students provoked worldwide comment. There were several bands of mounted Knights in armor, together with many group tableaux. It is proposed in the present case to prepare special features to be transported on trucks, and that the endeavor...