Word: yieldings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...classes are either blankly refusing to give up their rooms to seniors for use on next class-day, or are giving them up with a good deal of reluctance. Only freshmen have any excuse for not knowing that it is a time-honored custom for all lower classmen to yield their rooms to seniors for class-day, of all the days in the year, the seniors day; and, if nothing else, it is at least a courtesy for all others to give way to them at that time, and to try to make the day as pleasant and memorable...
...calling the attention of their opponents in the contest in educational methods to these suggestive figures, and from them draw the obvious conclusion that the elective system, as exemplified at Harvard, is becoming more and more popular, and that the old system of requiring Latin and Greek must yield...
...train a man to be more punctual than the necessity to be in class-room at the recitation hour. In fact, there is no earthly excuse for clinging to the old puritanical and narrow-minded policy of compulsory chapel. The college world demands the change and corporations must certainly yield...
...members of the band will win fame and gratitude for themselves, pleasure and recreation for the college at large, and new laurels in musical accomplishments for Harvard. With such high aims set before them, we do not see how the members of the college band can allow themselves to yield to any influences toward Harvard indifference which they may find around them...
...members of the band will win fame and gratitude for themselves, pleasure and recreation for the college at large, and new laurels in musical accomplishments for Harvard. With such high aims set before them, we do not see how the members of the college band can allow themselves to yield to any influences toward Harvard indifference which they may find around them...