Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...view of recent editorials on the subject of Commencement changes, permit me to call attention to a singular error made in a communication on the subject and overlooked in the editorials in question. The communication referred to found two objections to the plan suggested by the Committee of Alumni. The more important of these was based on the fact that the Committee's plan provided for a baseball game with Yale on the Tuesday prior to Commencement, and on that day, Commencement Day at Yale, our ball team was expected to play at New Haven. As a matter of fact...
...attendance at the athletic games has increased at least twenty per cent. The old system of having the University training tables scattered has been abolished, and the various tables have been brought together at the Union. This plan has been most successful, except from a financial point of view...
...interest in this branch of sport has become very slight, no effort can be made to form an organized team unless enough men come out to ensure competition for the various places. If sufficient interest is shown, however, Mr. Dohs will undertake a systematic course of training with a view to forming a regular team, and will be at the Gymnasium every afternoon from 4 till 6 o'clock to instruct men in the use of the various pieces of apparatus...
...many years geologists have thought that this region was composed of lacustrine strata, and it is only recently that a theory has been advanced against this view. Professor Davis made a trip to Wyoming last year, and procured enough evidence to warrant a consideration of these later views, although he made a very short examination of the valley. He found ample evidence of fluvial deposits and cross bedding which seem to point to the conclusion that the whole valley was once a shallow lake or flood plain, and not a deep permanent body of water...
...address before the Religious Union last evening on "Religion from the Educator's Point of View," President Eliot laid great stress upon the value of action and especially the exercise of the many ennobling traits as the means of developing the personal religious life...