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HELIOTYPE ALBUM. - In reply to the inquiries of a number of seniors in regard to a Heliotype Album of the class I should like to say that the subject was considered by the Photographic Committee some time ago, and so far as they could learn, through personal inquiry, there were too few desiring the albums to warrant any step being taken by the committee. On a number of gentlemen requesting that action be taken for a Heliotype Album, the committee announces that Pach Brothers will make a Heliotype Album of all the members of the class of '87, provided that...
...election of the members of the Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard. The spirit of the article in question proves the utter needlessness of any serious reply beyond a simple and direct denial of the statement. It is useless to attempt to argue with those who do not care to learn facts, and who add prejudice to ignorance. When pugilism is said to be the recommendation for membership in the Harvard chapter, the writer who spreads such silly gossip stamps himself as ignorant not only of the Phi Beta Kappa Society but also of Harvard University...
Harvard men will be astonished to learn from the Chicago Herald that the song, "Fair Harvard," was written by the poet Whittier, and first read at the late Harvard jubilee...
When academies are permitted to give college degrees, a two-fold injustice is enacted. Such a giving of college degrees is unjust both to the public and to the poor student, who will sooner or later learn to his sorrow the great difference between his A. B. and, for example, that from Yale...
...just how much French and German is an equivalent for a certain amount of Greek is for the gentlemen of the faculties of our colleges - not academies - to decide. That the equation cannot be made with mathematical truth, is no argument against the approximation of the truth. Let us learn something in this matter of college degrees from our cousins across the water...