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...Board of Overseers met yesterday, and by their action destroyed the last element of religious compulsion in the university. Harvard College, when founded in 1636, was intended to furnish an essentially religious education to its undergraduates. The ministry was then almost entirely composed of these Harvard graduates; but Harvard has outgrown all this; she is now a university with a divinity school of her own, and a law school of her own, and a scientific school of her own; she does not intend that her academic department shall turn out nothing but ministers, or nothing but lawyers, or nothing...
...PROVISIONS ATTACHED TO THEIR ACTION...
...instances have come to the notice of your committee of men in the class who have openly stated that they would not be in Cambridge on Class Day; but, nevertheless, intended to buy their package of tickets in order to speculate on them. The only excuse for such action can be pure thoughtlessness as regards its result. As a result of this speculation, the most objectionable class in the community is enabled to enjoy Class Day. In no case are the tickets supposed to be sold to any one who will use them for this purpose...
Boston Theatre. - "Streets of New York." Although at times Mr. Boniface seems perhaps a little too flippant in manner in face of his many accidents throughout the action of the play, his acting is on the whole a good piece of work; especially may be noted his sudden change, from laughing carelessness to that of frightened horror at the death of the old sea captain in the prologue. There is a lapse of twenty years between the prologue and first act, and it seems strange that all the other characters but Tom Badger, Mr. Boniface, should grow old; but this...
...Such action by an American college is, at least, phenominal! How interesting it would be to go into a recitation room in that far-famed institution and find college students competing with ten year-old boys in our Latin School on mensa, amo, or the like. - Beacon...