Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tedium of the chemistry recitation was broken yesterday by a student going to sleep and rolling off his seat. Much to the amusement of the class". This happened at Yale...
Despite the fact that the subject for debate at the Union last night was not of especial interest to the student generally, a fair sized audience was in attendance. The question was, "Should the Government own and operate the telegraph?" The vote on the merits of the question stood, aff., 24; neg., 19. The principal disputants were, affirmative, L. Litchfield, '85, and W. B. Noble, '85; negative, J. W. Richardson, '86, and E. J. Rich, '87. On the vote on strength of argument of disputants, the affirmative received 20, and the negative 28. When the debate was thrown open...
Against these dissenting murmurs what defence can the CRIMSON make? Briefly, this. We claim that the students of this college, as a unit, desire the abolition of compulsory chapel, and we look to the completion of the canvass which is at present going on, for confirmation of this statement. Nobody has ever for a moment supposed that there would not be a small minority which would favor the existing regime, but we confidently predict that the entire student body, practically, wishes its abolition. Any claims to superior age or wisdom, we wish modestly to deny: it has always been...
...last few years is very noticeable, especially among college men. A year or two ago a man who possessed the apparatus of an amateur photographer was looked upon as a curiosity, but now, instead of being the exception, he is fast becoming the rule. The interest which the students show in this pastime is not surprising. Nowhere so much as at college does the student wish to perpetuate the pleasant memories of faces which cluster around his life. the pleasure of looking over in future years some old photographs of past friends and scenes of college life, taken by himself...
...library. While we do not feel called upon to enter into a consideration of the manner or method of accomplishing the long awaited improvement, we cannot see any other means of attaining success in the matter than by unanimous and determined action upon the part of the students. The approaching winter, with its promise of virtually opening the doors of Gore Hall, while the students are otherwise engaged, and of closing them before the students are disengaged, is well calculated to prove a dreary season, in more than one respect. It does not seem possible that any reasonable argument against...