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...understand that it has been proposed to introduce an innovation into the chapel services next year which cannot but result in making them even more interesting than at present. Mr. Locke, the chorister and organist of the chapel, intends to organize a choir of about fifteen boys to sing alto and soprano parts, while the present choir as usual take the tenor and bass parts. The range of music written for the parts at present taken by the choir is exceedingly limited, and for this reason it has been felt for some time that a change was necessary...
...that the question of Gov. Butler's degree has been decided, a few comments of the press may be of interest. Those that follow were written before the overseers' meeting...
...great deal of interest has been excited of late as to whether precedent entitles any incumbent of the governor's chair to a degree; and , in this connection, it is interesting to note, especially with regard to the present governor, what the custom of Harvard has been hitherto. The first honorary degree of LL. D. that Harvard ever gave, was conferred on General Washington, for "his eminent services in the cause of his country and to this society." The first governor who had a degree was James Sullivan in 1807-8; but it is noteworthy that down...
...have perhaps reason to be thankful for the kindly interest taken in college athletics by the organs of professional athletes, such as the Clipper and Spirit of the Times. When any of these papers concede a slight amount of praise to the performances of college athletes do not our bosoms swell with grateful pride? On such occasions as the recent inter-collegiate meeting in New York, therefore, it should be our first effort to act so as to gain the approbation of the omniscient scribes who report for these journals. It is with feelings of the deepest delight that...
...semi-political bearing of the occasion. But that, after the manner of the cheapest politician, the Governor of Massachusetts, in a newspaper interview, should indulge in bombastic threats against Harvard College - this, certainly, is a matter in which no Harvard man can afford to take an indifferent interest...