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...leave Cambridge at Commencement and make his plans for twelve weeks. Three weeks at least must be subtracted for the two voyages, thus leaving nine weeks to be spent ashore. If one has $250 in all, and pays $130 for his steamer tickets, that will leave $1.90 a day, which will be enough to live on even in London. Of course it is necessary to take lodgings in some quiet place, perhaps not very near the city, and have your meals at the chop houses and small restaurants. It is very easy to confine one's self to a fixed...
...last meeting of the Harvard Union, the plan for adding a Legislative Branch was deemed inadvisable. Many of those, however, - including the President of the Union himself, - who considered it inexpedient for the Union to branch out in a new direction, yet favored strongly the foundation of a Legislative body which should be independent of the Union and should interfere with it in no way whatever...
...reasons for the plan little need be said. To all those who wish that the name of Harvard should not, as now, be connected with the idea of ignorance and indifference as regards parliamentary law, these reasons will commend themselves. Those who make the proposition appreciate to the utmost the importance and necessity of the training which the Union now gives, but they feel also that every man who purposes to be a good citizen ought to understand the workings of the law-making bodies of his country; and they fully believe that, in a Legislature of the nature intended...
...learn that certain members of the Harvard Union are agitating again the plan of turning the Union from a debating into a legislative body. It will be remembered by those who attended the early meetings of the Union last year, that this scheme was proposed and, after some discussion, was voted down. The arguments against this innovation seem to us as valid now as they were then, and, moreover, the experience of nearly a year has shown that the present system is successful. It is hard to see the advantages of a college legislature, in which imaginary bills, committees...
...first plan, which was based upon several existing French systems, provided annuities by means of 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...