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...following named gentlemen: Messrs. W. B. Noble or A. M. Butler '84; W. A. Halbert or F. I. Carpenter '85; J. M. Merriam, '86, or W. B. Scofield, '87. The subscription price for the year has been fixed at $3.00. Money must be paid on signing, as certain immediate expenses will have to be met in subscriptions to periodicals, etc., in case the reading room is started. Unless (100) one hundred names are secured before Oct 20th, the room will not be started. The directors hope that all who desire the continuance of the reading room will sign immediately...
...Baron Geo. Von Bunsen, a member of the Imperial Parliament. The method of proclature for electing a member to parliament in Germany is in many respects similar to the one in vogue in this country for electing a representative to Congress. But at the same time there are certain differences which Baron Von Bunsen said his hearers would readily detect as he proceeded with his lecture. In Germany it is customary in each electoral district, as the time for an election approaches, for a few of the leading members of a party to assemble and hold a sort of informal...
...does the writer seem to be aware of the still existing Harvard Union. The Union does now certainly some good work, and we should like to see it do more, but there are certain facts in the condition of the college which perhaps preclude its doing more work as now constituted. The first and main one is this, that as a body of students, we come too early to college to have formed opinions on any large subject, and also that most of us have had no literary education to form such opinions. The mass of students here, excluding...
...been said for some time that there is a strong party in the board of overseers who are in favor of directing a larger share of attention in the arrangement of the curriculum to the exact and comprehensive study of our mother tongue. However this may be, it is certain that the department of modern English and of theme instruction in the college is very much in need of reorganizing or of strengthening in some manner or other. The prescribed courses given in this department have never been popular, and according to the common opinion have met with a very...
...meetings of any recent date to set forth its views ?" The last public meeting was held April 13, at that time the officers had good reason to expect that Wendell Phillips would address a public meeting before close of the term. Mr. Phillips, however, was unable to come for certain private reasons, and then the short evenings and near approach of final examinations made it seem to the officers of the League inexpedient to hold another public meeting...