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...Latin Conquest of Constantinople in 1204. Since the subject is so faintly understood, if one of our professors of history would kindly give a lecture, open to the University, on the causes of the present war, tracing the history of both countries only so far as necessary, he would confer a favor on the students that would be highly appreciated. If in the limits of a single lecture it would be impossible to treat the history with enough fulness, it might be well to indicate the best sources for supplementary information, and to confine the lecture to such points...
...proposed to bring up a steamboat or two from New York as a floating hotel. The railroad management is most liberal in its offers, and New London promises to do everything that Springfield would do. The executive committee is now to decide between the two places, and then confer with Yale...
...petition is now before the Massachusetts Legislature asking that power be granted to the trustees of Wellesley College to confer degrees. It is claimed that this power is necessary to place the college on an equal footing with similar ones. Dr. Clark, in favoring the petition, said "that it was the intention of the trustees that no graduate should receive a degree unless having attained the highest standard of any college in the land...
...Chancellor Crosby advocates a single University Examining Board for the State of New York, each college to be represented in the Board, which should have the power to confer all degrees...
NOTHING has been done this week by the Seniors towards arranging their differences and filling the vacancies in the list of officers. We understand that the various portions of the class are to confer early next week and endeavor to agree upon something satisfactory to every one. We have sufficient faith in the good sense of the Seniors to believe that it is possible for them to come to an understanding that will relieve them from their difficulties and will enable us to see, next June, a brilliant and satisfactory Class...