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...meeting of the undergraduate Anniversary Committee was held last evening and decisive action was taken upon a plan to be submitted by the committee to each class for its ratification. This plan will be placed before the senior class at its first meeting, next Tuesday evening, the junior class on Thursday, probably, and the sophomore class on Friday. It will be submitted to the freshmen at their first annual meeting. It is desired that the entire university will lend the most earnest support as the plan calls for the unanimous and enthusiastic ratification of every student to insure success...
...suggestion is, that the faculty forbid intercollegiate contests on the part of Harvard students; and (pending this action) that parents forbid their sons to subscribe to the particular organizations by which such contests are now kept...
...speaking of Columbia's recent action in regard to the admission of women, Harpers Weekly says: The young Doctor and Bachelor, as she stood before the president and faculty and trustees and received her diploma, was a harbinger of advancing civilization, and of the constant enlightenment which makes this age brighter than its predecessors. Her presence on that academic stage meant that every opportunity of generous development shall be opened to women, and it showed that if Columbia College, cautious, wise, and much deliberating, does not refuse her honors to trained and proved scholarship and intellectual attainment merely because they...
...take their time up to the mid-year's to correct them. The result is that the roll-calls abound with men who never come near the courses, and the instructors are bored with a floating population of volatile individuals who have little idea what they want. The action of the faculty in this matter will meet the approval of all well-regulated students...
...lungs in starting a blaze which no one cares to prevent, in setting off cannon-crackers alone and unobserved, or in blowing long and loudly on a tin horn merely for one's own recreation. We would remind the Yale faculty as well as our own august body, (whose action on this subject has been perfectly rational, except that they attribute too great significance to these occasional outbursts,) that interference in such cases is seldom wise, whether on the part of faculty or students, and that "prohibition seldom prohibits...