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...Bussey Institution at Jamaica Plain is carrying on its work this year on about the same scale in former years. There have been practically no changes since last year in the appointments or the general efficiency of the institution. The number and scope of the courses is the same and, in every case, they are given by the same instructors...
...most helpful events of the year to the institution has been the completion of the line of electric cars direct from Harvard Square to Roxbury, which gives very good connections between Cambridge and Jamaica Plain. One of the great drawbacks in past years to the Bussey Institution has been its distance from Cambridge and the inconvenience of getting from one place to the other. With this new line of cars, however, this difficulty has been somewhat remedied and it is now possible for students from the Bussey School to come over to Cambridge and take courses in Geology, Engineering...
...Radcliffe the number of students in 1895-96 showed a gain of 74 over the previous year. Thirty-one students received a degree last June, of which only eight took the plain degree without distinction. The College needs several substantial buildings, adapted to their uses...
Yesterday the Class Day Committee respectfully submitted this plan to the Corporation committee, only to have it entirely rejected. It then became plain that from the first the Corporation had resolved upon the total abolishment of the time honored custom. Our class has been doubly aggrieved. Our opinions were asked for, and when offered were rejected without hesitation, and a custom which we all love is to be torn away from us. Further discussion of the objections of the Corporation is out of place, they have already been considered and, we believe, fairly...
...these advantages could not be obtained without an infirmary on a good financial basis. That I think is evident. It is plain, too, that no scheme that has yet been suggested is so well calculated to put it on such a basis as the five dollars a year scheme. The Corporation has no funds available for running such an institution. A plan of support which gives the authorities confidence will facilitate getting this much needed building, and is not this plan such a one? It would, beyond doubt, raise a sum entirely adequate for the yearly expenses of the infirmary...