Word: takings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...last meeting of the University Board of Overseers the resignation of Ephraim Emerton '71, as Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History, was received and accepted. The resignation is to take effect on September 1, 1918. At the same meeting it was voted by the Overseers to appoint Professor Emerton Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History, emeritus...
...smallest track team which has represented the University against Yale for years will go to New Haven next Saturday to take part in the triangular meet between Yale, Princeton and the University. The three-cornered contest is an innovation this year, suggested because of the war-time curtailment of athletics. Princeton has easily the best team of the three, with several letter men still in college, while Yale and the University are more nearly balanced, neither possessing material of normal calibre...
This evening's exercise will be followed by three more maneuvers, two of which will be held next week, while the third will take place on Tuesday, May 28. The latter will be executed before the visiting R. O. T. C. commandants from other colleges...
Academic minds may argue that military drill is not precisely part of a liberal education as it is a physical and not a mental process. Let such persons take part in one maneuver and see if their mental activity is not greater than it would be in an I.D.R. class...
Class Day exercises for the College and Sheffield Scientific School at Yale will be omitted this year, and other events, largely of a patriotic nature, will take their place, according to announcement of the Yale commencement plans made yesterday. Many classes are planning to return for the exercises. The reunions will be conducted in a simple and economical manner, with special war programs. A patriotic celebration, in which the alumni will participate, will take the place of the customary baseball game with the university on class day, which comes this year on Tuesday, June...