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Dates: during 1880-1889
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While I, too, "am a thorough believer in the elective system, yet I do not believe that any one is entitled to the degree of A. B." who has not done a certain amount of brain work, who has not been educated up to a certain point. It is by no means necessary that A has done the same work in kind as B for him to receive the same degree; but it is necessary that they be equally educated, equally equipped for future work along their respective lines. For example, just how much French and German is an equivalent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A. B. Again. | 3/2/1887 | See Source »

...Hobbs, L. S., read his dissertation on the "Twelfth Article of Jay's Treaty" to an interested audience yesterday evening. This study in the diplomatic history of this peculiar article is marked by masterly clearness and conciseness of thought and diction, and gives evidence of thorough and conscientious investigation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/25/1887 | See Source »

...purely social intercourse and entertainment. The members dine together once in every six weeks. No member of the A. D. can belong to any similar society. The club dates from 1865, but was merely a continuation of the Alpha Delta Phi, which existed until that time. In 1873 a thorough reorganization of the club took place. New rooms were elaborately yet tastefully fitted up in a building on Brattle street. No expense was spread to make the rooms as comfortable as possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Societies. | 2/25/1887 | See Source »

...weeks have nearly passed since our promenade season, and the university has become thoroughly settled in its winter's work, tiresome and monotonous to most of us. The junior promenade and its attendant festivities were all pronounced very successful. Three successive evenings of gaycties, the Glee Club concert, the promenade itself, and the class germans, interspaced with receptions in the daytime, all united, we trust, to give a most enjoyable time to our numerous visitors, as they certainly did to ourselves. Since then the various athletic organizations have considerably increased the severity of their training. The University Crew, owing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Letter. | 2/18/1887 | See Source »

...shall give a thorough review of F. A. 3, with synopsis and questions Wednesday evening at 7.30. Also of History I. Thursday evening. Tutoring in Chem. A. W. J. Bowen, 32 Hollis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/11/1887 | See Source »

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