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...committee shall have power to direct the manner in which the accounts of each of the above mentioned organizations shall be kept...
...team which '88 proposes to pit against the other classes, in the present inter-class contest, there is one man of a member of the junior class who also figures upon the University Tug-of-War Team. It seems to me that, beside being in direct opposition to the established precedent of the college in the case of other athletic organizations, this is hardly fair. In making up the nines, crews and teams which shall represent the college in all intercollegiate sports, we pick out the best material we can find in the college as a whole, irrespective of class...
...Gray, who followed for the affirmative, maintained that the world has outgrown large armies. Large armies are a direct encouragement to needless and exhausting wars. This was the case in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870. We should live up to the high standard which William Penn reached when he made his great peace with the Indians, an event which Charles Sumner declared to be "the proudest sight which American history records...
...University Club, reading-room, smoking-room, place of rendezvous and restaurant, if you will and can; but also turn it to some more solid account by making it a place where matters of college interest may be discussed: a not only talked about, uselessly and with no power of direct result, but in such manner that the opinions prevailing have some concrete effect easiest obtained by giving the debaters votes. Quod bene vertat...
...college publications is a course of training for journalism named. Below the surface the facts are different. Nothing is lacking at Cambridge to make the University a fitting school of the best kind for newspaper work. Where other colleges require a great expenditure of time on studies not of direct appreciable value to an editor, Harvard prescribes no study even in the freshman year which is not calculated to make the student of service on a newspaper staff. Any Harvard student who thinks he has a taste for newspaper work is given plenty of chances to test his abilities...