Word: yieldings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hands, that it ought not to have any effect in the final decision; the entire question rests on whether there will be room for all the classes around the tree. If, after considering this question, the class day committee think there will not be room, the freshmen will yield gracefully. The best and shortest way out of the difficulty appears to be for '86 to elect a committee to confer with the senior committee and thus reach a speedy settlement. The question could be fully discussed in a joint committee of the two classes, and whatever decision arrived at would...
...association shall have the right of using a court at any time provided a holder of the court does not wish to use it, but those who are not members of the association shall not be allowed to use the courts, or, if they do so, shall have to yield to members of the association desiring to use them...
...That is, that ownership of a court consists merely of the right to have the exclusive use of a court between certain prescribed hours of the afternoon. Let any person have the right to use any unoccupied court between three and six, provided only that he be ready to yield the court to the owner in case he should wish...
...journalism that is occupied by no publication in this country. The only attempt at journalism at all similar, the Harvard Register, failed because it could not be said to represent the undergraduate or the instructor. Although largely filled with contributions from the pens of professors, it was compelled to yield to an official publication of the faculty; it had never commanded the support or interest of the undergraduates...
...graduates and the freshmen. But to exclude the former would be a lifelong matter, as a man always remains a graduate when once he has attained that position, while a freshman passes usually through that stage in a year; so that it seems better for the freshmen to yield. The proviso can be made that in case they win the Yale game the upper class men are willing to suffer the additional discomfort of the crowding at the tree that will come from their presence there. But the trouble last year arose from the indecision of the senior class...