Word: whether
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...been elected president of the association; Drummond, '90, Sheff., vice-president, and Wright, '91, secretary and treasurer. A committee has also been appointed to draw up a constitution and to secure suitable grounds for practice. A challenge has been received from the Harvard Cricket Club, but it is doubtful whether the Yale Association will accept...
...private school girl, in too many instances, passes her school years in acquiring an ill-regulated and superficial mass of knowledge instead of in being trained to those habits of thoroughness which are so necessary to women when called upon to take part in the practical affairs of life, whether as managers of households or as earners of bread. Therefore the committee begs that all who are interested in the education of girls will contribute toward the desired scholarship as a practical encouragement of the examinations...
...that these meetings tend to develop who have made no effort to be present at them. The examinations will be over to-day, and we hope to see the men who have offered "grinding" as an excuse turn up at the meeting next Thursday. We strongly urge every one, whether he has ever tried jumping or putting the shot or not, to enter the next contest. No one can tell how well he can do till he tries, and the result of these meetings is so important for the success of Harvard at Mott Haven that every...
...this action, Columbia is the first of the large colleges to take the step of giving to women the same privileges as are extended to men. Whether this progressive movement will call forth corresponding action from her sister universities remains to be seen. For some time the smaller colleges-Colby, Wesleyan and others-have admitted women as candidates for degrees, but until the plan is adopted by the more prominent institutions of learning the success of this revolutionary attempt cannot be assured...
Yale is careful not to send her best speakers. It is thought that if men are sent who combine common sense with intense earnestness it makes no difference whether they are speakers or not. The object of the deputation work is not exhortation or the discussion of theological problems, but simply to provide a means of stating personal experiences in a familiar manner. Athletic men have taken hold earnestly-a fact which has set students thinking, for they know that here, certainly, there can be no cant or hypocrisy