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...obtain a better understanding of the views of the students, and a better means of communication with them. The committee was given none but advisory powers, but its suggestions were influential in the conference and the questions were settled in a manner entirely satisfactory to both sides. As this plan had worked so well, it was thought best to make the committee permanent, giving it as before only power to advise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Advisory Conference Committee at Williams. | 4/16/1885 | See Source »

...similar in purpose to that at Cornell, although not entirely so in form. Instead of a Mock House of Commons. The classic form of a "Literary Society" has been dragging along a precarious existence ever since the foundation of the university, but has been lamentably unsuccessful. Our new plan combines, we think, the advantages of the old system in having an official committee charged with bringing in subjects for discussion, with those of the Cornell experiment. This official committee is in the "Hopkins House of Commons" represented by the ministry. The Prime Minister is appointed by the Speaker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOCK HOUSE OF COMMONS AT JOHNS HOPKINS. | 4/13/1885 | See Source »

...plan proposed by the Conference committee will be discussed by the faculty this afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/31/1885 | See Source »

...first issue of the CRIMSON of next term will contain a description, taken from the Architect's plan, of the new Hilton dormitory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/31/1885 | See Source »

...proved, however, that the senate is entirely practicable; the judgments, while few, have not been made hastily, nor to the detriment of the college; the senate has not proved more lenient than the faculty; the latter have been entirely satisfied with its workings; and the growing popularity of the plan at Amherst and at other colleges is a good omen for the success and an increase in the powers of the conference...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Amherst Senate. | 3/27/1885 | See Source »