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There are, however, two slight features in the present system of government which are still in need of improvement. It seems to be an unwritten law that no one outside of the State or almost outside the immediate vicinity of Cambridge can be on the Board of Overseers. The College has a large number of prominent graduates who live outside this State, and there is no reason, now that communication is so easy, why a graduate living in New York or even farther off than New York should not serve on the board. In the President's Report...
...second point is of rather more importance. By law, voting for Overseers is allowed only in person in Cambridge. Of course only a small portion can be here on Commencement Day, and by this provision the majority are deprived of their suffrage. And there is no need of this, for votes could be received by proxy, and thus all who cared to have a voice in the management of the College could do so. Usually there is very little rivalry for the office of Overseers, and the result of the election is satisfactory to everybody. Still there may come...
...Linguistic Palaeontology. - How we arrive at conclusions concerning the culture of the primitive Aryans. Grimm's Law. Reconstruction of the Aryan mother-tongue. Old Aryan names for houses, towns, domestic animals...
...School do not scruple to insert a plain bid for tutoring; their advertisement reads as follows: "Those offering themselves at the June examination, and finding themselves deficient in a portion of the Mathematics, can get systematic instruction in these subjects at Cambridge during the long summer vacation." But the Law School is far ahead of all the other departments. In an announcement of the great advantages and glories of the school, the Faculty indulge in this spread-eagleism: "The Law Library is one of the most complete and extensive in America: and among libraries belonging to law schools...
...laboring for their very collegiate existence. In the examination in History 3 last Monday, a serious and unnecessary hindrance stood in the way of the best possible work. Instead of furnishing printed papers, - a custom which, if not required by regulation, is certainly enjoined by the unwritten law of the College, - the Professor chose to have the questions inscribed on the blackboard, as is done for boys at schools. Now the eyes of many of us are not in the best condition in the season of the Semiannuals, and deciphering hieroglyphics at a time when every moment was precious proved...