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...idea of compressing Class Day and Commencement into one week is certainly good, but since, as has before been suggested in the CRIMSON, it can be done in a much simpler way, not open to these objections, it would seem useless for the Senior Class today to adopt a plan which is such a radical departure. A. H. WEED...
...year it is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain Harvard's reputation in debating. During past years superior debating methods, supplementing the efficient and enthusiastic work of the debaters, has aided materially in securing an almost unbroken line of victories over Yale and Princeton. But other colleges are coming to adopt methods which have hitherto been used solely by Harvard, and, as was shown last year, it is becoming harder and harder to win. If the University is to hold its place in debating, it is necessary that an unusually large number of men try for the University debates...
...much better than they were or could have been by my feeble and unaided efforts on the Board of Directors. Very few persons agree in toto with the plan proposed; and if the vote today is in the negative, there will be an opportunity in the immediate future to adopt a plan which will save to the members needed powers, and at the same time bring about changes which the majority of the Board of Directors probably feel the necessity of more strongly than others. But if the plan is adopted, one extreme view will prevail, those who hold...
...majority of the directors of the Co-operative Society on May 24 sent to each member of the Society a copy of the plans they propose for the incorporation of the Society. Together with this plan they sent a plea for its adoption, in the form of a majority report. The majority refused to the minority its right to publish a minority report together with their own. This attempt on the part of the majority to check a full discussion of the proposed changes affords a strong reason why the Society should refuse to adopt their plan...
Since they must assume all the liabilities of stockholders under the state law, it seems necessary that they should have a correspondingly ample control. They will adopt a set of By-Laws which contain in substance the provision of the present Constitution and By-Laws. Copies of them may be seen at the office of the Society...