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William Scollay Whitwell '03, left Cambridge on the night of Thursday, February 26, and has not been definitely heard of since. He wrote a note saying that he was under a temporary fit of mental delusion and, to avoid being a drag on his family and friends, he would commit suicide by jumping off the Fall river boat. The note was received in Cambridge the next day. Thee porter and the newsboy on the boat, however, state that they saw him get off the boat on Friday morning and the baggage agent on the wharf asserts to have seen...
...visitor to the University was lately heard to express surprise that he had seen undergraduates who were introduced to one another in his presence on one day pass by in each other's sight on the next without the exchange of a common greeting or the slightest act of recognition. To the aspersions "Harvard indifference" and "Harvard snobbery" we are not inclined to accredit a greater basis in fact than to the myriad of similar slanders made against every university by shallow phrase-makers with more time than ideas at their disposal. But it ought to be our care that...
...Barker Hill '69, Director of the Chemical Laboratory, was held in Appleton chapel yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. James Eells, of the first congregational Church of Boston, conducted the services, and the University choir sang the following: Choral, Bach; Anthem, "They are in Peace," Foster; Solo, "I heard a Voice in Heaven;" Hymn, "O God Our Help in Ages Past," Watts. The pallbearers were Dean Le B. R. Briggs, Professor C. L. Jackson, Hon. J. J. Myers, Professor J. K. Paine, Professor C. R. Sanger. Professor T. W. Richards, Rev. R. S. Morrison, Mr. E. L. Burlinghame...
...probable, he said, that the revival of debating by the universities, accompanied as it is by coaching both on matter and form, may restore the vogue of the orator. The best speaking of today is that which is heard on university platforms...
...admit all evidence for or against the proposed dam. The first of these hearings was to have been held yesterday morning, but, in response to a request from the counsel for those opposing the improvement, it was postponed until the first week in February. After the committee has heard the evidence on both sides a report will be made to the Legislature and, if favorable to the dam, the measure drafted by the Commission will brought before the Legislature for its final acceptance or rejection...