Word: sittings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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WHAT'S the matter with '88? Have they forgot where Pach's Studio is? If so we would say just here that it is between Beck Hall and the church, and Mr. Tupper is waiting for them. Come in and sit or make an appointment Monday, Tuesday and Thursday...
...next morning another novel thing occurs-that is a freshman's first morning at prayers. The freshmen are assigned seats in the body of the chapel, under the back gallery; the seniors sit in front of them, and the sophomores and juniors on either side. Sometimes a freshman is sent up front by some fun-loving upper-class man, but he is soon ejected. It is an old custom at Yale for the seniors to rise in their seats and salute the president as he passes down the aisle, at the close of chapel; but the freshmen are expected...
...three recitations a day with the exception of Saturdays, when they have one and a lecture by the president upon "Common Sense and Righteousness." Sometimes during the first three months the freshman class is given a reception by President Ewight. About this time the freshmen begin to long to sit on the fence, but we are told that they cannot do this until they have beaten the Harvard freshmen at base-ball. There is one freshman society, called the Gamma Nu. It is a debating club, and meets every Saturday night and generally has about forty members...
...faculty to the large loss of life which must necessarily ensue in case of a fire in any of the dormitories. There is no possible means of egress except by the stairs, and if escape in that direction should be cut off, one would be compelled to sit down and calculate how many minutes were to elapse before the flames reached the upper story. Perhaps after one dormitory is a smoking mass of ruins, the faculty, like the man who padlocked the stable door after his horse was stolen, will place fire-escapes on the remaining college buildings. There...
...their presence and the offender made to kneel before them. The president then offered a prayer after which the "prison-keeper at Cambridge" attended to the performance of flogging. The exercises were closed with prayer. A student thus chastised was "suspended from taking his degree," and required to sit alone and uncovered at meals as long as the president should...