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...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 for 1874-75 two pages...
...next graduating class at Bowdoin College will number forty. This class started with about eighty men. It was the largest class when entering that the college has had for years, and it will be one of the largest to graduate...
...undergoing examination by the Era and Chronicle; the Index will probably lend a helping hand after it has settled a few more disputed points regarding Napoleon, and then the other papers will drop into line. The Chronicle is getting modest, referring to itself only sixteen times in the last number, instead of over thirty, as in a previous...
DURING the past two weeks the candidates for the Crew have been steadily at work, pulling on the average seven hundred and fifty strokes and running two miles daily. Simmons, '80, and Stow, '80, are now trying, making the number of candidates fourteen...
...Harvard College an elective course is offered in Political Economy, but it is made so difficult, and goes into details to such an extent, as to greatly diminish the number of those who take advantage of it. What is wanted is not an advanced course for the few, but an elementary course for all. Once the foundations of the science are mastered, and well impressed upon the mind, the superstructure will come of itself by observation and experience...