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...festivities will be brought to a close this evening with the Promenade itself which promises to exceed all previous ones. The 1907 committee is as follows: C. Sumner, chairman, W. McC. Blair, T. P. Dixon, R. E. Danielson, H. P. Fabian, C. Truesdale, S. F. B. Morse, H. H. Woolsey, and E. L. Pratt. The Sheffield representatives on the committee are R. C. Tripp and K. Behr of the Senior class...
President Eliot spoke on "Resemblances and Differences among American Universities" last Monday evening at Yale in Woolsey Hall. He said, that although there are diversities among American universities and State institutions, the tendency toward the same constitution is strong. In administration nearly all are patterned after the governing board of Harvard College, originally created by the General Court of Massachusetts Bay in 1642. The tendency of recent legislation is to bring the governing bodies of the institutions to a common plane, in which the amount of political control is being steadily diminished, religious denominations are losing their influence, and wherein...
President Eliot will lecture at Yale in Woolsey Hall this evening on "Resemblances and Differences among the American Universities." This is the first of a series of lectures to be secured from time to time from the income of a fund of $10,000, given to Yale anonymously by a graduate of Harvard, to be devoted to the purpose of promoting good relations between the two universities...
Frederick Erastus Pierce P.G., of South Britain, Connecticut, prepared for college privately. While in college he held Woolsey, Callendar, and Waterman scholarships, and was class poet upon graduation in 1904. He won the J. H. Curtis prize, the third Ten Eyck prize in oratory, and the literary medal. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He was on last year's team which defeated Princeton and was alternate two years ago. He is president of the Yale Debating Union...
...Haven, Conn., December 9, 1904.--Before a very large audience in Woolsey Hall, Yale defeated Princeton tonight in the annual debate. The Yale team, which supported the affirmative of the question, "Resolved, That it should be the policy of the United States not to hold territory permanently unless with the purpose that it ultimately enjoy statehood," surpassed its opponents in both oratory and argument and presented a much clearer and better connected case. Both teams were inclined, however, to be somewhat flippant. The judges, Professor John Bassett Moore, LL.D., of Columbia University, Hon. Lucas F. C. Graven, Governor of Rhode...