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...members of the faculty, as well as by the students, and that when the question of a conference committee for Harvard comes up before them for decision they will consider the success which has attended these attempts at student-government at other colleges, and therefore not hesitate to adopt the scheme which has been for some time under their consideration on the ground that there is a doubt of its success...
...last ten even, when Henry Irving, the representative English actor of the day, delivers at Harvard College an address on the art of acting; an address which presupposed from its tone and the treatment of its subject that there would be in the audience students wishing to adopt the stage as a profession, as others will adopt law or journalism or the ministry. This assumption, once at least, explicitly stated, is the most striking peculiarity in the address which Mr. Irving delivered in the Sanders Theatre Monday evening. The intelligence, the elevated tone and the dignity of the lecture...
...take the vows of perpetual poverty; and this policy seems to me dangerous and derogatory to a great university, which we are striving to build up. The compensation should be such as to invite men of scholarly tastes and enthusiasm who long to become teachers of men to adopt that profession, without feeling that, by adopting this choice, they are depriving their wives and children of the social and educational privileges of the families of law-years or physicians, or of average merchants. The calling of a teacher is much more appreciated than it was fifty years ago, but there...
...committee of conference shall have the powers of a committee of the faculty. By this, it is meant that, whenever the committee sees fit, it can, as the result of a conference, adopt, by a majority vote of the student members, a resolution which the faculty members, a resolution which the faculty members shall report,-like the report of a committee-as soon as possible to the faculty; and the faculty members shall, as soon as possible, report back to the student members the action of the faculty in regard to the report, and the grounds of this action...
...understood that we do not undertake to keep such a body as the Board of Overseers in the path of consistency, that is altogether too difficult and irksome a task for us to attempt. We point out the true course for them to take, we persuade them to adopt this course,-and here our duty to the University ends. After that, we wash our hands on the whole body, and leave them to their fate. Perhaps, however, our restless contemporary the Advocate, which is so clear in understanding articles of a facetious nature, may be willing at this position...