Word: yale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days ago W. J. Bingham '16 announced that Professor Kennedy of Princeton had accepted the invitation of the Harvard and Yale authorities to act as referee of the Harvard-Yale-Oxford-Cambridge track meet in the Stadium on July 13. Mr. Bingham and Professor Kennedy were the directors of Harvard and Princeton athletics respectively at the time of the break in athletic relations between the two universities three years...
...places which had been left disputed on the Harvard-Yale track team which will meet Oxford, and Cambridge at the Stadium on July 13 were settled in special trials on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. Uihlein, Yale freshman shot putter, put the iron ball three-quarters of an inch farther than G. W. Kuehn '32 to win a berth on the team with a toss of 43 feet 11 1-8 inches. E. E. Record '32, Harvard freshman captain, sped over the 120-yard high hurdles in 16 seconds, ahead of F. J. Mardulier '30, earning his right to compete against...
...within our memory have there been such criticism and hardly concealed disaffection. It is time, we think, that the fact be accepted, that Society "recognition" for service in the undergraduate world and for outstanding leadership in its various enterprises, is going by the board together with other old Yale traditions, and that Senior social groups are being formed, based on Fraternity acquaintanceship and Fraternity voting strength, resulting in an entirely new Senior Society tradition. If this is to be the case, well and good: our point is that the Senior Societies should frankly admit it and not sail under discarded...
...situation at Yale today undoubtedly calls for one or more new Senior Societies or clubs, which will elect on merit and leadership as did the old ones in previous years, and be the "Honor" groups which the College now lacks. The opportunity is there to be taken advantage...
Regardless of this, "Tap Day" should certainly go into the discard of outworn Yale traditions. This intrinsically barbarous practice belonged to the older and more primitive Yale College. Now that the modern Senior Societies have frankly become social clubs, with their members chosen on that basis (and no one can object if that is their openly avowed policy), some better system of giving out elections should be found. Yale Alumni Weekly...