Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...recent meeting of the University Corporation little was done besides discussing the proposed action of the city of New Haven in trying to tax various portions of the college property, raising the amount paid yearly from $50,000 to $489.000. Should this be done, a serious blow would be inflicted on Yale, and it is felt that the college does enough good to the town to deserve better treatment. Letters from other institutions of learning show that little or no taxation is universal elsewhere. A test case will be made soon before the courts...
...that this would be the case, because it would be to the manifest advantage of those men who are behind to make way for those who are between themselves and the flowers. Again it must be remembered that a slight delay in getting at the flowers is not a serious hindrance to the plan, since there will be plenty of flowers for everybody...
...celebration of Class Day is extended over two or three days: first, that this change would be, in all probability, acceptable to only a portion of the class; and, second, that it would involve an increase in expenditure by the individual members of the class which would have most serious results...
...CRIMSON is asked to call attention to the serious lack of interest taken by the Freshman class in its Glee and Banjo clubs. The leaders of the two organizations have been obliged, owing to the few men who have tried for the clubs, to call not only second, but third trials of candidates...
...would be put to the trouble and expense of providing an emergency fund to make up possible deficits. If it did prove successful, even the charge of $1.00 a day for every day's residence in the infirmary beyond five days, insufficient as it may seem, would prove a serious drain upon the resources of some fellows. It would be a great advantage to them and even to their richer fellow students if they could estimate at the beginning of each year that $5.00 would cover their possible sickness expenses...