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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...foremost in all our minds, sums up the Yale position as follows: "At Yale the situation has never been much in doubt. The Faculty as a rule leaves the decision of athletic questions in the hands of the undergraduates, who would object very strongly to any curtailment of the various athletic schedules." And even if the Yale faculty did not do so, the undergraduates would have little to fear. President Hadley has been quoted as saying. "Some" of the students "wish to go home for Saturday or Sunday. Others go to the nearest city to amuse themselves. Each of these...
...University have been impaired by intercollegiate athletics. It may then be possible to justify the Athletic Committee in the eyes of the Faculty in rejecting the proposition now under consideration, and to prove that curtailment will not have the desired effect of raising the standard of scholarship. The various abuses of scholarly interests can then be taken up, and the actual results upon them of athletic curtailment considered point by point...
...surprising expansion of the various departments of the University during the last 20 years is well exemplified by the growth of the Appointments Bureau. The Bureau was founded in 1887 by the late Frank Bolles '82, then Secretary of Harvard College, in order to stimulate a demand for undergraduate helpers, and to make independent of financial worries ambitious men of small means. The success of the Bureau was instantaneous, and about 200 men were secured employment during the first year. A few years later the Bureau was extended so as to include Harvard graduates, and in 1897 the Appointments Committee...
...main object of the conference is to exchange ideas and plans for work in the various college Christian Associations. Mr. A. L. Thayer '04, graduate secretary of Phillips Brooks House, and J. M. Groton '09, president of the Christian Association, will represent the University...
...Fraprie, the author of the following book reviewed by Dr. Webster, received the degree of B. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School in 1898 and S. M. from the Graduate School in 1902. He was a student at the University of Munich in 1902-03, and later taught in various high schools and the University of Illinois. From 1901 to 1905 he was an associate editor of the Photo Era, Boston; and since 1905 has been editor of the "American Photography," New York, and "The Electrician and Mechanic," Boston. He is the author of several books on chemical and mineralogical...