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...Nation of this week contains a communication from "Anti-Butler (Harvard, '83)," in which the writer condemns the conferring of degrees by Harvard upon men who have attained political rank, but are perhaps not noted for their intellectual power. He calls this action an "annual farce," and asks, "What sort of civil service reform is the university teaching...
...senior class of Dartmouth College to express a choice for commencement orator, Col. Robert G. Ingersoll received a majority of votes. Subsequent, it was learned that this year the right of choosing the commencement orator is vested in the Alumni Association, and not in the senior class; consequently the action of the latter is valid...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Although the year is nearing its end, the senior class have as yet made no arrangements about admitting freshmen to the exercises around the tree on class day. Last year this subject was agitated somewhat, and gave rise to some very weak actions on the part of the senior class. The arrangement at that time was that the freshman class were to be excluded from the tree unless they won a game of base-ball with Yale. This arrangement is a similar one to the "fence" plan at Yale. But the propriety of such a rule here...
...trainer is to be obtained who will have a regular salary, to which the Athletic Association will be expected to contribute. Moreover, the association will undoubtedly be involved in new expenses in helping to forward the plan of the new athletic grounds. It is not often that the action of the Athletic Association is criticized, and, when a just criticism has been brought up, it has always received careful consideration. In this case the college has had no means of knowing the extra expenses that the association will be obliged to meet, and the dissatisfaction which has been expressed...
...chiefly owing to his own incompetence. It was charged, however, that Fitz-John Porter was to blame, and he was tried by a court-martial, and sentenced to be dismissed. This decision was brought up and considered by a court of inquiry in 1878-79, who recommended that the action of the court martial be reversed. Mr. Channing then explained the maps which he had brought with him, and showed the position of the armies. He explained the famous "joint order" of Pope's to McDowell and Porter, and the way in which Porter misunderstood it, and hence...