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...Nevertheless, it may be doubted whether they overthrow the many objections to the advisability of co-education as a system. If, indeed, it should actually occur that in some future year the annex, then become a great and flourishing women's college, should make application for admission under the general government of the university, then it might be advisable to allow its petition. Not, it is to be hoped, should co-education ever be admitted at Harvard to the extent that it holds at Cornell or at Ann Arbor, but perhaps under some modification of the system prevalent at Oxford...
...weather has been most propitious for the ruling sports here. Foot - ball and tennis are in full swing. Lacrosse has no games to look forward to this fall, and hence the team have gone out of training, and will wait until the spring before doing any general or systematic practice...
...Dana was running for Congress against Gen. Butler, there was a dinner at Parker's (in the large room, No. 6, fragrant with the memory of many a symposium), and a young gentleman was seated between Judge E. R. Hoar and Mr. Dana. There was a general discussion upon the merits of the candidate, which reached back and forward. This young gentleman - younger then than now - listened and gradually grew merry with the thought of the perturbation which the planetary orb of Butler was producing in the political system. He was not a friend of Butler - then...
Said the young gentleman: "This contest is perpetually renewed. Annually General Butler is to be a candidate. He is beaten today. He will come again, and by-and-by, for mere weariness, the State will accept him. Some dozen years hence, when he has worried everybody to death, he will be found to have a majority...
...uncommon pleasure to listen to the remarks and the motion of my friend on the left. The State, the college and the community owe him a debt of gratitude. It gives me pleasure to listen to the motion and the remarks, and I trust the proposition will meet with general approval...