Word: signs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...position of the Yale authorities that checked our faculty in its earlier attempts to improve athletics, and the Yale papers have never, within recollection, advocated athletic reforms. Under these circumstances an article from a Yale pen, calling for a higher standard in college sports, is a happy sign of progress. Take these two sentences of Mr. Ripley's, for instance: "The leading principle," he says, "in contests between gentlemen, should be that the best man should beat, and in a gentlemanly way." Again, he says that the howling which was a feature of certain base ball games last year, "indicates...
...impression from the cover. Have you ever, in riding along some solitary country road, been confronted by two gaunt posts bearing a signboard with the ominous legend "Look out for the engine." Such is the general appearance of the cover of the Index. Two tropical palm trees support a sign, on which is prominently blazoned the title of the work. Beneath, we are regaled with a view taken from the Nile delta. wherein are portrayed several beautiful obelisks and tomos, with a little-Moses-in-the bulrushes,-and-Baalim-and-his-assattachment. Why the plain and tasteful cover of last...
Copies of the prayer petition have been sent to the students who live outside the college dormitories; these copies are printed on postal cards, which the students are asked to sign and return, whether they happen to live outside prayer limits...
...certainly a great improvement on the old system of calling the roll and having "spotters." With a hundred names or more on the list, the calling of the roll is a long and tiresome ordeal for both instructor and student. But the new system, that of having the men sign their names on slips of paper at each recitation, is certainly a relief to the instructors and, we may well suppose, not at all disagreeable to the monitors...
Hazing at Union College is over for this year. Four sophomores were detected in the act of placing a freshman on a Chinese idol standing behind the college and were promptly suspended, but were reinstated on condition that each one in the class would sign an agreement not to do any more hazing...