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...debate of the Harvard Union last evening on the question of "Co-education at Harvard" drew forth a large attendance, and excited much spirited discussion. The first vote on the merits of the question showed the audience strongly in the negative, but the final vote after the debate was largely in the affirmative. Messrs. W. H. Baldwin and W. A. Halbert of the sophomore class were the regular disputants in the affirmative and Messrs. R. Coit, '83, and J. McDuffie on the negative. The annual reports of officers were made after the debate. The treasurer's report showed a balance...
...Laughlin delivered a very able and interesting lecture last night before a large audience, on "The Sub-Treasury System." The lecturer traced the growth of the present system from that formerly in vogue, and afterwards set forth in clear light the defects that now embarrass it. The undesirable relation of the Secretary of the Treasury with the money market, brought about by the act of 1864, in which it is enacted that the banks shall not be depositories for receipts for customs, and which, therefore, forces the treasury to hold in its vaults large amounts of specie, was discussed...
...careful attention of all who are interested in the policy of our government, and these lectures, covering the past and present policy of the country in regard to tariff, will furnish an easy means of getting a good general idea of the subject. The announcement of these lectures calls forth the question whether it would not be well to have every year a course of lectures on the practical questions of the day. Our courses in Political Economy can hardly be said to cover these subjects, though they give a preliminary training indispensable for gaining thorough insight into any economical...
...understand that the cricketers in college intend to put forth all their energy in the spring in order to raise a good eleven and awaken an interest in cricket throughout the college. In the first object they may reasonably hope for success. There are already a number of good cricket players in college, and with energy and steady practice there is no reason why they should not bring out a team able to make a good stand against the elevens from other universities. But in awakening a general interest in this sport the difficulties will be greater. In the first...
...totally different platform; he is in the best sense an aristocrat. Those who begin work at thirteen, and those that are born not to work at all, are alike his inferiors. He should be able to spread light all around. He it is that may stand forth before the world as the model...