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SECTION 2. The duties of the vice-president shall be to perform the duties of the president in case of absence or disability on the part of the latter...
...education of women with the assistance of the instructors in Harvard University," and for this purpose it empowers the society to "employ teachers, furnish instruction, give aid to deserving students, procure and hold books, suitable apparatus, and lands and buildings for the accommodation of officers, teachers and students," to "perform all acts appropriate to the main purpose of the association," and to transfer "the whole or any part of its funds or property to the president or fellows of Harvard College" whenever the same can be so done as to advance the purpose for which the society is chartered...
...being made to administer the great gift of a New England man to the South, a grand jury in Georgia has just issued a formal denunciation of general education, on the ground that it unfits a large element of the population for the work they are best adapted to perform. "And there are," gravely adds a leading Southern paper, "a great many people in Georgia that agree with the grand jury...
...they are not compelled to perform at least a part of the work for which they are paid is a riddle to perplex OEdipus. We hope that next year some steps will be taken to protect occupants of dormitories from a worthless imposition...
...might not the more impartial and unprejudiced classes unite to express their firm belief in his integrity and patriotism, which now appear to be so freely doubted, and to endeavor in some measure to stem the tide of demagogism that is rolling over the land? The Harvard Union might perform this function for this community, and might find this a very interesting question to discuss at some future meeting. Doubtless those in the university who approve of Mr. Lowell's course would be glad of such an opportunity as this or some similar one for expressing their sentiments...