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...therefore, rests the final decision of this important question, and we are confident that the committee will be influenced by no uneasy desire for a change, but will decide according to the best interests of Harvard. The meeting last night from beginning to end showed a strong desire to adopt whatever course was most honorable for the College, and the discussion was carried on in a frank and generous manner...
This barbarous state of things should continue no longer. Let Harvard, ever foremost in improvement, adopt this last, this final reform, - the complement of the elective system. Then soon will she see her graduates far surpassing in learning and intellect those of the most renowned universities of the Old World...
...have only time to sketch roughly the plan I would adopt for the practical application of the system. I would divide the whole number of members of the Dining-Hall Association into five classes, and each of these I would subdivide into two subclasses. These divisions should be composed of men who take chiefly the following subjects: A. Languages. 1. Ancient. 2. Modern. B. Mathematics. 1. Hard. 2. Soft. C. History. 1. Of Events. 2. Of Institutions. D. Physics. 1. Useful. 2. Useless. E. Philosophy. 1. Comprehensible. 2. Incomprehensible...
...this step are very patent. The magenta is not now, and, as was shown in the meeting, never has been, the right color of Harvard; accordingly the name, as applied to the paper, would be a mere vagary, or, worse, a solecism, in case another college should adopt magenta as its color. The general diffusion of the fact that crimson is Harvard's color will be somewhat difficult, and the difficulty would probably be increased if a paper existed at Harvard called the Magenta. The reasons that led the founders of the paper to choose Magenta as its name...
...think that the request should be refused, if not ignored. In the first place, we think it doubtful that Union ever claimed the color before Harvard; and, even if that be the case, we see no reason why the color should be resigned by us. Union claims to have adopted the magenta in 1860, although no testimony to this effect is brought forward; and it is asserted that Harvard did not bear the magenta before 1871. This last statement is false. The magenta was recognized as Harvard's color early in the last decade. We have not yet been able...