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...fate of the petition of the students for voluntary attendance at chapel has at last been decided. The matter has been carried to the Board of Overseers, the final court of appeal, and the verdict rendered is that it is inexpedient to grant the request of the petitioners. This decision of the overseers, though not wholly unexpected, is yet a most disappointing one to those who have been prominent in getting up the petition, and by the students as a body the news of the overseers' action will be received with regret. We have done, however, all that...
...after our usual short resting space, the college calls "Time" for the third and final bout of the annual struggle between students and studies. Again we come back to Cambridge with the same old resolutions to do a tremendous amount of work, and do it well,- how well the "finals" only can show. But leaving aside the question of studies, which concerns, after all, only individuals, we must stop for a moment to consider the state of the athletic interest, which concerns the university as a whole. We are, practically, upon the threshold of our season of out-door practice...
...while in the other case, a committee, with no such powers can have its resolution adopted or rejected only by the vote of the entire faculty. It should however be said that President Seelye has never, we believe, exercised this right, and so the Senate's decrees have been final. The jurisdiction of the Senate extends over matters of discipline, which would not probably come within the province of our conference committee. Wherever among students, there is a tendency to carry school-boy tricks and manners into college, a trial of the delinquents by their fellow students has always been...
...second and final competition in the current series of matches will be shot at Watertown, this afternoon...
TUG-OF-WAR.The final event of the meeting was the tug-of-war between eighty-six and eighty-five. For this event the floor was, for a wonder, kept entirely clear, so that the spectators experienced no difficulty in watching the progress of the contest. The signal cord was operated by Mr. Sexton, '84, and the word was given by Mr. Morison, '83. Some time was consumed in getting a fair start, but when the word was finally given both teams came down with an even drop. By repeated heaves the ribbon was brought over to the '86 side...