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Professor Davis and Professor Jackson intend to conduct during the April recess a geological excursion, with such students as desire to accompany them, to the districts about Syracuse, New York. The series of fossiliferous strata are well shown there, as well as certain remarkable examples of gorges, which were cut by temporary rivers along the retreating margin of the ice sheet during the closing stages of the glacial period...
...general the replies, though in many ways unsatisfactory, tend to confirm the wisdom of electives in Harvard College. The number of men who favor certain prescribed studies is large, but the courses prescribed are in most cases in English; History, Government and Economics, or Science and some modern language. Classics and mathematics are mentioned by few, showing that the lack of an old fashioned training in these subjects is not felt seriously by men of some experience, commercial or professional. One suggestion is so generally made as to command special attention: the student should be more carefully guided...
...College Yard, through Peabody street, and enter the College grounds by the Johnston Gate, between Massachusetts and Harvard Halls, and thence proceed to University Hall. In University Hall a luncheon will be given by the President and Fellows to the Prince's party, the Faculties of the University, and certain invited guests...
...Sanders Theatre should assemble between 1.30 and 2 o'clock in the College Yard on each side of the path by which the carriages will drive from the Johnston Gate to University Hall, massing themselves particularly in front of Harvard and Massachusetts Halls. Arrangements will be made to have certain gentlemen present to lead cheering at these points. Students are particularly requested to keep off the driveway in this part of the Yard...
...awkward gesturing and clumsy postures. The whole discussion turned on the question of the possibility of enforcing the excise law. By the affirmative it was maintained that Major Low was bound to enforce these laws legally and morally and by every consideration of expedience. That while there were certain dead laws on the statutes which could be ignored, the excise laws commanded immediate enforcement and that non-enforcement meant a return to Tammany rule. The case of the negative rested on two main points--that Mayor Low is justified in not enforcing the excise law, first, because the conditions make...