Word: use
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...stated by the chairman of the Class Day Committee that it would probably be impossible to hold exercises about the Statue this year because they necessitate the use of wooden stands, which, during the exercises, offer such danger from fire that the Corporation will probably prohibit their erection if the class itself does not wish to abandon them. A letter to that effect from the secretary of the President was read by the chairman. Such being the case, it was argued that exercises could be held to advantage in the round end of the Stadium, where there would be opportunity...
...altogether, on the ground that no other plan is feasible. This has been assumed owing to the impossibility of erecting stands in the Yard. As a matter of fact, the program as suggested for the Stadium could with very slight change be carried out in the Yard, without the use of any stands whatever...
...advantages that have been cited as arguments for the use of the Stadium are negative: the elimination of danger from fire, and the desired seating capacity are, one may say, necessities, and are not intrinsic advantages to be found in the Stadium itself: it is merely that the Stadium satisfies the requirement in this particular--but no better than could the Yard...
...then the class should be asked to vote, not upon indefinite exercises in the Stadium, but upon a number of alternatives, such as: No exercises at all, the Yale baseball game on Class Day afternoon or outdoor theatricals in the semi-circular end of the Stadium. If we must use the Stadium, it seems to me that the latter idea would be sufficiently attractive, if properly carried out, to insure the co-operation of the class and its friends in attending them. Moreover, it would establish a pretty custom and one which other classes would be glad to repeat...
Vail is coaching the 1905 squad of twenty-six men and the 1907 club crew squad of thirty. Wray's and Vail's squads use the tank and machines on alternate days...