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...involves more than merely an automotive merry-go-round. In addition to keeping traffic circulating around the kiosk in a counter-clockwise direction, the current plan involves the elimination of all trolley-busses and removal of trolley-car track. To speed subway traffic, the exit on Massachusetts Avenue near Wadsworth House has been turned into another entrance. Bus loading stations have been moved from the kiosk to in front of the Coop, and the traffic booth and traffic lights both eliminated...
...doubtful inference to an attempt of the Overseers, beginning in 1754 and renewed at intervals for some ten years, to improve the elocution of the students by requiring the public recitation of dialogues translated out of Latin into English." Lowell was, however, evidently unfamiliar with the diary of President Wadsworth which indicates that some sort of ceremony existed at least as far back...
...Wadsworth, who had been out of town for some years before his inauguration in 1725, remarked the valedictory exercises with interest. "I was Informed also that ye President & Fellows should sit with their Hats on when Valedictories are pronounced," he wrote. Early in the senior year, apparently, the Class got together to pick someone to deliver the valedictory. By 1750, there had been added more class officers, a dinner, and a sermon, as well as the Latin oration. In 1743, at an election meeting, several seniors were "found guilty of drinking prohibited Liquors," and were fined...
...work is not confined to mothering Freshmen and welcoming athletes. Its non-athletic committee attends to a variety of other University visitors. Even Elis qualify; over the Yale Weekend, the Key set up an elaborate information bureau in Wadsworth House to help the confused...
...three class agents, Thomas J. Hyde '49, William Gold '49, and Hans H. Estin '49, began signing appeals yesterday at the Wadsworth House head-quarters of the 23-year-old Council...