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...think it is time to give the college some expression of the views of a large body of students who did not approve of the measures made use of by two of the papers to obtain a longer recess. I was just as anxious for the two extra days as any one in college, but I do not think that the way to gain such a concession is by ambiguous editorials inciting students to take an unfair advantage of one of our most valued privileges, that of voluntary recitations. I do not believe that is the way students of Harvard...
...case, we understand, are as follows: About a dozen years ago the faculty recommended a scheme of vacations which was adopted by the corporation. In this scheme but one day was allowed for the Thanksgiving recess, but since that time, until this year, the faculty have given us two extra half days on their own responsibility. Ever since this practice was commenced there existed in the faculty a faction opposed to this lengthening of the recess, believing it to be unconstitutional, if we may put it so. As the faculty is constantly changing in its members...
...better for her reputation for intelligence and usefulness. Meanwhile, if any generous person proposes to endow the annex, he may well consider the sweet reasonableness of waiting until the system is adjusted upon the principles of sound common sense. Instead of providing funds to pay the professors for their extra lectures, the just and wise course would be to endow a hall of residence, and let the university reward its instructors. - [N. Y. Tribune...
Athletics are more prosperous than usual. After due consideration, an extra hour daily has been granted by the faculty to the students for the purpose of exercising. This unexpected manifestation of the interest felt by the faculty in our sports is so appreciated by the students that a strict conformity to all the college laws regulating athletic sports is adhered to, and immediately upon the stroke of the three o'clock bell all games upon the campus cease, and five minutes later not a player of any kind can be seen...
...waiters; and as they pay much higher wages than Memorial can afford to pay, they succeeded in getting some of the best of those waiters whom Mr. Fred Balch had already engaged for this winter. In the second place, the Hall has been so crowded this autumn that extra tables have been put in the main hall, and some forty men have been seated in one of the side rooms. This of course necessitated extra waiters...