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...question of the effect of the proposed House Plan on Sheff's social life is naturally an important one. It has numerous implications, depending on the use to which the dining halls in the new Vanderbilt Square are put. The varying interpretations as to what it will imply, however, are as confusing as they are exasperating. All of which brings up the old proverb that if a dog bites a man, it's not news, but if a man bites a dog, it is news. The man has evidently bitten the dog in this case. Sheff, is to have...
...English system of education and other perlish system of education and other pertinent questions since the News is recognized by alumni and the Press as official spokesman of undergraduate Yale it is essential that we treat impartially and with equal regard for the best interests of all, questions affecting Sheff, the common Feshman year and the college...
...student that the position of the News is no more than logical. To establish each department as a unit would be to strength both; and neither would be to strength both; and neither would lose touch, since the title of Yale University would, as it does now, include both "Sheff" and the college. This tendency toward simplification is but another example of the present Oxford movement. When colleges cease to fear the restrictions of names a great advance will have been accomplished. Tradition will remain inviolate as long as the spirit of an institution flourishes. And certainly the News platform...
...cent of the freshman class electing the Ph. B course in the college, and 360 men or 44 per cent, the B. A. and the remaining 19 per cent, choosingly for engineering and 11 per cent, for science, all results in but 244 men going to Sheff as against 560 to the college. This in itself is a considerable factor in he lack of unity, which the college undergraduates now feel, and which a good many alumni would like to see changed to the older conditions...
...over into the new Senior year, which now has 150 men instead of the 250 of 30 years ago, is no less open to study. If the college is to go on adding into itself in numbers through the choices of Freshman year than recently have tended away from Sheff (and we hope that this is not to be the case), there will sooner or later have to be a reconsideration of the social system to catch up with the change...