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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...classmates, and were given the fence, the highest honor that can be awarded to a freshman at Yale. This is what aroused the interest of the Yale undergraduates in debating and caused them to make the efforts that ended in Harvard's defeat this year. It is just this sort of enthusiasm that should be shown here on Friday night if our freshmen win the debate...
...seems willing to undertake the responsibility of leading. Why not, then, have the baseball management appoint men to lead cheering, as they now appoint the ushers? The men who are chosen for this important service will not look upon it as a hardship, if they are the right sort of men, but rather as an honor. Cheering alone will not win a game, but it will give the players heart and snap, and the more uphill the game, the greater is the need of enthusiastic applause...
...Sudermann," by Gaillard T. Lapsley. After critically reviewing the principal plays of that author, the writer characterizes Suderman as powerful, though ineffective through diffusion. The coarseness and obsceneness so evident in the plays are excused on the ground that Sudermann, like all Germans, was not so sensitive to this sort of thing as are the English speaking people...
...Dean of the Medical School has done an admirable thing in asking the members of the different classes to appoint certain students from their number to confer with him upon subjects that are closely connected with the student interests in the school. Something of the same sort was attempted in the College last spring, when the College Conferences were started, but the plan unfortunately was abandondoned almost immediately, and before any good could have resulted. We felt at the time that these conferences would have been an excellent thing for the College and regretted that they had to be given...
...statue was discovered in a sort of grotto in the island of Melos in April, 1820. A French officer happened to be present at its discovery by a peasant gathering stones, and he at once took steps to secure it for his government. After a long delay it was shipped to France where it has had many adventures, especially during the Commune, and now stands in the Louvre...