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...Catalogue is more comprehensive this year than ever before. It contains much matter on subjects never before mentioned in a catalogue and altogether it is capable of giving a good idea of the work done at Harvard. The growth of the Summer Schools is a matter taken up at length, and all the prizes which have been offered during the past year are described. One of the most noticeable features of the book is the department of the Scientific School, the growth of which is remarkable. The Graduate School also shows a great increase in members. The grounds...
...reason why the petition for the omission of registration after the Christmas recess was not granted was that the statute fixing the length of the recess is established by the President and Fellows with the sanction of the Overseers, and the scheme of registration is merely a Faculty regulation to carry out the provisions of this statute; the Faculty therefore felt that they had no right to grant a petition which would make the statute of the higher body inoperative. It seemed, moreover, as we have been told, that Harvard being a University, it would be a slur...
Professor J. W. White next spoke at some length and discussed the athletic situation at Harvard, past, present and future, with great clearness. He rejoiced in the butial of "Harvard's indifference," stated the position of the Faculty towards athletics and ended by declaring himself in favor of intercollegiate contests under reasonable restrictions...
...Staten Island Athletic Club, a game of foot ball is to be played at the Madison Square Garden, N. Y., between the Manhattan A. C. and the Boston A. A. Saturday evening, December 13. Two half hours will be played. The field is said to be of regulation length but rather narrow...
...would stand a good chance of being thrown aside before it had passed all these hands, but happily, we do not find that it is necesary to go through so tedious a process. The petition does not ask for an amendment to the statute, which so strictly defines the length of the recess, but merely begs that the day of registration be changed to January 5th. It ought not to read this way, exactly,- it should ask that in this case, registration be omitted entirely. If it is put this way, since the whole system of registration is a fabricatian...