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...articles, voted that they should be published in full in the Harvard morning papers on Monday, and that the general meeting of the university should be held in Holden chapel at 7.30 P. M., Tuesday, Feb. 28th. All persons connected with the university are invited to be present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CO-OPERATION. | 2/25/1882 | See Source »

...Loring lectured in Washington last night upon cruelty to dumb animals. He severely condemned the present method of shipping cattle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/25/1882 | See Source »

...following extract from President Eliot's article on the elective system is of immediate and significant interest to every Harvard man. The public will doubtless receive it as an official outlining of the future policy of this university; indeed it is substantially a statement of her present policy; and if Harvard were in need of any justification of her present system, in the discussion on this subject now going on in the public press, this might serve for that purpose. President Eliot says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/24/1882 | See Source »

...disheartening than to feel that mere polished, empty formality of expression counts for more than original and characteristic work. There are styles and styles in literature, and no man ought to have been obliged to conform to any particular one that an instructor happened to admire especially. With the present division of the class into sections and sub-sections each student's work receives more particular attention, and thus, in several ways, we may say, the advantages offered in this important department of the college have been extended and made more beneficial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/24/1882 | See Source »

...seventeen seniors who, with the present immediate members of the Phi Beta Kappa, form the first twenty-five in rank on the class of '82, general scale of three years, are : Messrs. Dakin, Cook, G. M. Richardson, Ludlow, A. Hall, Dickerman, Waite, Fiske, Whitman, W. H. Dunbar, J. W. Mason, Gage, Rice, Robinson, Fernald, Bullard, Allen. The first eight juniors on the class of '83, general scale of two years, are : Messrs. Grandgent, Hodges, Hubbard, Evans, McInnes, H. Putnam, Loeb, O'Callaghan. The present eight petitioned the general chapter to raise the number from twenty-five to one-seventh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PHI BETA KAPPA ELECTIONS. | 2/24/1882 | See Source »