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...Amherst transfers the control of the students' disposition of time, money and energy from the faculty to the students themselves. The resolutions conclude with a request to the faculty not to persist in a course that will surely result in a diminution of the students' affection for their Alma Mater and respect for its faculty. The resolutions were eagerly signed by all the classes, less than half a dozen men having as yet refused to put down their names. The petition will be presented to the faculty this week...
...indeed, every reason to be grateful, will take no trouble to inquire into the merits or demerits of any dispute in which Harvard is engaged, adopting that view which is the most obvious, or is presented to them first, do more to bring contempt and discredit upon their Alma Mater in one year than undergraduates could do in fifty...
...seem to be more modest, excepting, perhaps, college graduates. They invariably put down all their titles. One who seems proud to have returned to his Alma Mater has written, " '74 and wife." Some Yale man who came up in his freshman year has honored the entire head of one page with his name followed by "Yale, '85." High school maidens and seminary girls appear, perhaps, most frequently. The present visitors' book was opened January 2, 1879, and has now 234 pages filled. On each page there is an average of 23 names, thus making a total of some 5380. Query...
...Butler is to be invited to address the literary societies of Colby University, Maine; but he will probably decline, as his relations with his alma mater have never been cordial since she changed her name...
...with a wet towel about his head, and conscientiously works out his allotted task; the other stretches himself upon a lounge and has the day's lesson poured into him by admiring comrades. Both are toiling for fame, though in opposite directions. Both have won honors for their Alma Mater; so she gives them the same certificate of acquirements. And as to subsequent usefulness in the world, there is little to choose between them...