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...wish to propose a remedy, namely, that the Echo and Advocate make an agreement by which the former shall confine itself to the bulletin board, religious canvassing, and "lies by the day or week;" and the latter shall assume the fearful responsibility of explaining the elective pamphlet in one-third of its pages, and shall endeavor to make the remaining two-thirds readable by securing the advance sheets of the Crimson's serials. If this last proves impracticable, the space might be filled up by attacks on the Crimson and by the effusions of Freshman contributors. We are sure that...
...compulsory annual reserves from salaries, supplemented by equal annual appropriations from the treasury of the University, and accumulated for terms of years, which would ordinarily have been long; the second was based upon the English government system, and simply provided a retiring allowance, varying, according to circumstances, from one-third to two-thirds of the recipient's last annual salary in full activity. The first plan commended itself to a large majority of the instructors; but was opposed, for various reasons, by an influential minority, and at last was rejected by the corporation, partly because it was not acceptable...
...regard the days or weeks in term-time, when regular lectures, recitations, and laboratory work are intermitted, as time to be used for reading, writing, and converse with comrades in intellectual pursuits. The summer vacation is, in itself, a quarter of the year; to take vacation in addition during one-third of each of the other weeks in the year means to use but half of the year for work...