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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...good custom. Tuesday night the Senior class may "make history," so to speak. The Tree exercises are one of the chief features of the chief day of our college course. Let every Senior, therefore, spend some time, even if it be only a few minutes, in weighing carefully the various plans suggested, and in trying to come to some definite conclusion on the whole matter. No one, unless his judicial faculties are abnormally developed, can make a reasoned decision concerning the best plan of Tree exercises on the spur of the moment in a class meeting. In a meeting...
...putting on exhibition the cups now known to be in existence in the University. The Cumnock Cup, the West Point Cup, the Tennis Trophy and the old Mott Haven Cup are permanent trophies and should be in some place where they can be seen. Besides these there are the various trophies held for a year, such as the Shooting Cup, the Fencing Trophy and the Chess Cup, which might well be on exhibition. If these trophies are sent to the Gymnasium the Director offers gladly to take charge of them and to have a case made for them in which...
After long discussion and consultation with various professors, the Committee on Intercollegiate Debates has finally chosen the following question for the Yale debate: "Resolved, That the United States should adopt definitely the single gold standard and should decline to enter a bimetallic league, even if Great Britain, France and Germany should be willing to enter such a league." This question has been telegraphed to Yale with the request that her choice of sides be sent back within two weeks...
Houghton, Mifflin and Co. will issue, the latter part of February, a book of remarkable importance, "The Liquor Problem, in its Legislative Aspect." It is the popular statement of the results of a very careful investigation of the working of prohibitory and license laws of various kinds in Maine, Iowa, South Carolina, Massachusetts, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and Missouri. This investigation was made by experts under the direction of Eliot and Low, and James C. Carter, Esq., a Sub-Committee of the Committee of Fifty, which has undertaken the problem of the Drink Question...
...Junior crew has no settled order. The two crews of the first squad start in with about the same men every day and then men from the second squad are put in various places in the two boats. They do not use the slides as yet but are trying to perfect the body reach. The majority of the men do not seem to reach far enough. The time of the first squad has improved, but the men from the second squad break it up considerably...