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...action taken by the overseers in recommending that no degrees be here-after conferred save for merit only, is the direct outcome of the Butler debate of two years ago, and should meet with approval by every one who desires to maintain the dignity and meaning of the higher degrees. Every commencement time has become, under the habit of bestowing honorary degrees, a time not of recognizing merit and rewarding it, but an occasion for an undignified attempt to increase the influence of a college by giving men, eminent in other departments than in learning, titles which are properly...
This recommendation of the overseers should be adopted by all the leading colleges of our land, and in this way, by united action, the tendency to degrade the good old meaning that has been attached to these former exclusive titles of learning can be corrected, and in the end, a standard for conferring the higher degrees established, that will reflect additional honor on the giver, and on the recipient...
...those who can understand it, the next sentence will be of interest. The examination in Mathematics 5 will be on as much of the following subjects as has been treated since the mid-years; Motion of Particles under action of Central Forces, Rigid Dynamics, Theory of Functions of a Single Imaginary Variable, and Elliptic Functions...
...EDITORS OF THE DAILY CRIMSON.- Dear Sirs: May I be permitted, as one of the members of the faculty most deeply interested in the success of the recent action about athletic celebrations, to make a few remarks about it to your readers...
...hoped that the measures taken at the last yard concert, to keep the mucker element at a proper distance, are but the beginnings of an action still more stringent and effective. A little energy and firmness, would very soon teach the objectionable young mucker that his place is not in the yard, and his task not to make himself as disagreeable, and everybody else as uncomfortable, as possible. Perhaps a good strong policeman, with a stronger "billy," would be as effective as anything else. But a policeman could not attain complete success, if he had not the co-operation...