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...response to the notice calling a meeting of all those men now at Harvard who have previously attended some other college, about fifty men assembled in Sever Hall, Saturday afternoon. Mr. F. B. Vrooman was chosen chairman and Mr. E. B. Delabarre, secretary. Mr. Delabarre then stated the object of the movement, saying that the main purpose was to correct wrong impressions of Harvard at the colleges and to testify to the success of the present system...
...there has been at any time a feeling that these meetings were not a success, were not fulfilling the object for which they were intended, it must now have disappeared. The meeting of Tuesday evening was of the greatest use in enabling the students to see the hitherto obnoxious and ill-understood recommendations of the Overseers in a much more satisfactory light...
...movement has been started among those men who have come to Harvard from other colleges, with the object of counteracting the wrong impressions of Harvard life and methods which have been wide spread recently...
...petition started by the CRIMSON for electric lights in the library came up before the corporation on Monday. The object of the petition was to give to the members of the corporation some idea how desirous of having access to the library in the evening the great mass of students and instructors were. And the fact that a thorough investigation of the expense of putting in the lights and of the extra service has been requested gives us cause to feel that our agitation of the subject was not in vain...
...junior is supposed to be fully as well equipped as the average American bachelor of arts, and by conferring the degree of A. B. on the present juniors, Harvard would not bind herself to give the A. M. for anything less than her present requirements. If money is an object, there seems to be no valid reason why Harvard should not create a new freshman year below her present...