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That the amount of ready money received by the College would be increased rather than diminished, is easily seen. The quarter of the class which stays here after graduation would have a direct interest in giving more. Many would subscribe generously for a known purpose, who would otherwise refuse. Each one would be inclined to give more in order to confer an immediate benefit upon his fellow-students. It certainly does not seem too much to say that the average subscription would be increased...
...shall, if it always sings as pleasantly as in the last few numbers. The Beacon, however, is not critical enough in its selections. The College Argus contains but little, and that is of interest only to its college. The Niagara Index is wretchedly printed and made up, and is hard reading. The Round Table complains of college indifference. This was a standard subject for Harvard papers about three years ago, but we suppose the evil has just reached Wisconsin. Hor&ae Scholastic&ae is the most pretentious of the papers from the preparatory schools, and has the most literary merit...
...Harvard Register for February was received yesterday. The second number is in all respects an improvement on the first. Nearly all the articles have a general interest even for students, and some are not without a special interest, as, for example, Dr Peabody's college customs fifty years ago, and President Eliot's treatment of the subject of scholarship, in which open scholarships are strongly opposed and the present system commended. Mr. Arthur Gilman gives the origin of the Annex, and Professor N. S. Shaler a short account of the Natural History Society, while Dr. D. A. Sargent replies...
...will not fall behind in subscribing to the Class fund, the last and most pressing call upon the liberality of the present Senior class. The fund is a class fund, for the purpose of defraying all future class expenses; and by the liberality of the subscriptions is shown the interest that the each man takes in the future prosperity of all the under takings of his own class. It seems a very selfish way of looking at the matter for a man to consider only the amount of future benefit he expects to receive out of it himself...
...remaining topics of interest which are spoken of are the various bequests, the instruction in Chinese, the need of new buildings, the salaries of officers, and the proposed system of retiring annuities...