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Whereas it has pleased Almighty God to remove from our number our friend and classmate William Samuel Eliot...
...ready adoption of a suggestion in the last Magenta relating to the formation of a Chess Club, and the prompt calling of a meeting to start such a society, give us reason to believe that there exists at Harvard a number of men skilled in chess, and willing to give part of their time to the study of it. The interest shown at the meeting called yesterday afternoon to consider the question is also encouraging. A committee, consisting of Mr. Stimson, '76, Mr. Chase, '76, and Mr. Lowell, '76, was appointed to draw up a Constitution, to be reported early...
...December number of the Old and New is educational in its leaders, and contains a College Directory of some eighty columns, which gives the names of the men and their departments on the different College Faculties throughout the country, together with the number of students, and the date of foundation of the different institutions. It is valuable as a reference to all interested in education. We think we recognize Harvard characteristics in the sensible remarks on the considerations which commonly influence a college corporation in the selection of its professors and instructors...
...December number of the "Old and New" contains the College Directory for 1874 - 75, and the statistics to be gleaned from it are very interesting...
When a college has more than two hundred students it is entitled to be called "large," for the majority of the colleges of the United States contain, it seems, less than this number. In speaking of this abundance of small fry, the editor of the magazine says: "It is true that we are probably wasting force by multiplying the number of such institutions. One good one is better than five poor ones. It is not certain, however, that it is true that one large one is better than five small ones." He thinks, too, that "the bottom of all difficulties...