Word: thinge
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...April 5th-in Easter week that is-so that our vacation will not begin until the middle of Easter week. Why could not the faculty be induced to let us have the whole of Easter week? To those of us who live away from Boston, it is a pleasant thing to be able to pass Easter and the following week at home. Besides it makes a very fair break in the time between January 1st and July 1st. The proposal seems to meet with great favor among many of the undergraduates, and there seems to be no strong reason...
...those of the overseers. Our correspondent has done well in agitating the matter thus early; for there will be plenty of time for the faculty to bring the question before the Board of Over seers if it meets with their approval. It would seem to be a very simple thing to begin the vacation on the Saturday before Easter and have college reopen on the following Monday week-thus having the double advantage of giving us Easter at home and of starting in again at the beginning of a week, instead of in the middle. We hope the faculty will...
...movement, and have issued identical lists of the literary works with which freshmen are required to be familiar. So far as the purpose of this endeavor is concerned we have only the heartiest approval to express. We hold a thorough mastery of the English language to be the one thing absolutely essential to the education of English speaking men, and we regard the literature of the English language as the one literature with which it is a shame for any educated man or woman to whom English is a mother tongue to be unfamiliar. We hold that a loving familiarity...
...will probably result in changing the minds of many people in favor of college education. Two hundred dollars a year will go a long way toward paying a man's college expenses, and many poor young men who may not have thought of a college education as a possible thing for them will be ready to take the responsibility of paying what expenses they incur above the two hundred dollars...
...being that, as the promenade question is in imminent danger of an adverse decision, any further disturbances would be likely to decide it unfavorably for the two lower classes. In addition the faculty offer a whole holiday if the freshmen will accede to their request. As a general thing the sentiment of the University is against giving up any of the peculiar Yale customs, but in this case the upper-classmen are all in favor of the action of the faculty...