Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...chief points of the Yale method of distribution are these. Whenever a room is assigned to a student, he may retain it till the end of his course, or may give it up at the end of any academic year and draw for a choice again. An allotment of vacant rooms takes place in June,- the classes drawing for choice in order of seniority. The drawing is for choice of room, and not directly for the room itself. No one can dispose of his choice, or of his room. If any one is dissatisfied with his choice, he can drop...
...education can be attained. He says that the high schools should now be made to serve the purpose of the colleges of two generations ago while the scope of the universities should be so enlarged that they can serve as a field for the individual expansion of the students. With regard to the colleges which still retain the ancient rigid requirements of classics, Mr. Curtis says "no college can justly plume itself upon superior fidelity to the classics because it insists that they shall be a bed of Procrustes upon which every student shall be equally stretched...
...That the business of the conference be the discussion of subjects proposed either by the faculty members or the student members; but that, in the order of business, subjects for discussion brought before the committee by the faculty members as a body shall have precedence over all others...
...That resolutions passed by a majority vote of the student members be reported to the faculty by the chairman, who shall subsequently report to the committee of conference the action taken by the faculty...
...subject of athletics will be one with which this conference will deal, and it is hoped that such careful suggestions will be made by the representatives of the students that many of the present seeming evils will be remedied. But we feel sure that whatever action is taken on this subject, after a meeting of the conference committee, a feeling of satisfaction and submission will pervade the college, inasmuch as the student side of the question has been heard and carefully weighed. The expressed intention of the committee from the faculty to widen the field of debate in the meeting...