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...following is an account of the receipts and expenditures made in behalf of the new track on Holmes field...
Last evening, Dr. H. P. Bowditch, dean of the medical faculty, lectured on the Advancement of Medicine by Research, to an audience filling the small hall in the Divinity building. His lecture was a plea in behalf of research by means of experiments on animals. He spoke of pain being a subjective sensation and relative in value. In animals which are dull in sensibility compared with man the sensation of pain is comparatively less. Many of the actions and cries which they make are out of proportion to the pain they bear, and are consequently misleading. The whole question...
...last action of the Athietic committee of the faculty will not go very far towards increasing the popularity of that committee among the students. To condemn arbitrarily a student before allowing him a word in his own behalf, is hardly consistent with the recognized principles of justice and fair dealing. The endorsement of this style of procedure by the faculty will tend to increase the bad feeling already existing between the authorities and the students. It is to be hoped, therefore, that the decision in question originated with the committee, and that it will not be approved by the faculty...
...view then of all these facts, and of the reasons which undoubtedly exist for the change or entire revocation of these rules, we respectfully petition, on behalf of the athletic organizations, to represent which we have been elected by the students, that the vote of the faculty, by which these resolutions were accepted, be reconsidered...
...long-delayed matter of co-operation among the college faculties in the regulation of athletic aports has at last come to an issue, and the labors of the Harvard athletic committee and of President Eliot in behalf of such cooperation at last have begun to bear fruit in the regulations already adopted by the Harvard faculty, and soon very probably to be adopted by the four other colleges necessary to give them effect. There now seems little doubt therefore that the experiment of the new system will be tried, and that Harvard is to be among those who first will...