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...institution are all in favor of broad liberality and equality of rights and privileges. The state of my health and the increasing weight of years may prevent me from taking an active part in the matter, but it would be a great satisfaction to give my voice in behalf of a measure which I feel certain would redound to the honor and materially promote the prosperity of the college. Brown University cannot afford to hesitate much longer in a matter like this of simple justice. No one who has felt the pulse of public opinion can doubt that the time...
...presentation of the monument on behalf of a parishioner was made by Mr. H. H. Edes, in a few well chosen words. He said that two pleasant duties devolved upon him - first, the cordial welcoming of every person in the great congregation, assembled to do honor to the memory of so good and great a man; and, secondly, the presentation of so appropriate a tribute of the love and esteem in which Dr. Walker was held by one of his parishioners, who considered him the nearest to perfection of any man she ever...
...thanks of all are due to the Co-operative Society for its energetic efforts on behalf of the students in getting reduced rates for the Christmas recess. The managers of the society have experienced great difficulty in getting any reductions at all, owing to the present railroad combinations in force and the consequent reluctance of any road to make concessions. The reductions obtained are, under the circumstance, considerable. But it is necessary that if they be finally secured, the co-operation of all be given in carrying out the plan proposed...
...recent meeting of the Columbia Boat Club it was announced "that in reply to the letter of the Harvard graduates concerning the difficulty between the colleges, the directors' committee had instructed Mr. R. C. Cornell on their behalf to testify to the Harvard gentlemen the appreciation of their generous conduct felt by Columbia men, and to reciprocate the wish that the old mutual good feeling between the colleges be maintained." Mr. A. L. Simonds, '72, is president of the club for the ensuing year; J. K. Bangs, '83, secretary, and R. H. Muller captain...
...students of all classes, among whom were many gray-haired practitioners, assembled to hear their old teacher give his last lecture. The advent of the doctor was marked by the rising of the pupils, and as their clapping ceased, one of the members of the school presented him, in behalf of his last class, a beautiful "Loving Cup," inscribed with a quotation from one of the "poet's" own poems. This proof of the esteem of his pupils was a hard blow to the doctor, but the inevitable photographer and his camera gave him time to recover sufficiently to begin...