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...former elections great difficulty has been experienced in making rules with regard to dropping candidates, which shall not, on the one hand, force a candidate out of the race prematurely and unfairly, and which shall not, on the other hand, enable a few men, by holding out, to prevent a choice for some time, and finally force an undesirable election. The rules recommended on this point have been found effective and just in the elections for three years back at least. Still, as fairness and not time is the primary consideration, the matter is worthy of much thought...
...time when, backed by a rich endowment and a powerful clientage, it may knock at the doors of this ancient university and demand admission as a constituent part of its organization. The prospects of any such an event of course are so far removed into the future as to prevent any apprehension whether pleasant or otherwise of its realization. Indeed the majority, we believe, very fairly are inclined to regard such a vision as entirely chimerical. The prospects of the endowment and actual establishment of a great university for women in Cambridge do not seem promising. The arguments advanced...
...growing spirit of lawlessness and rowdyism on their part, furnishes sufficient reason for excluding them entirely from the college grounds. Next spring, perhaps, when we have an enclosed field for athletics, this nuisance will be done away with, but for the present some measures should be taken to prevent its continuance. If the Cambridge police were notified they would undoubtedly stop the nuisance...
...firm footing again. The fiscal year of the society ends on the third Wednesday of February, and on that day the annual dues of members are payable. A sudden prejudice against the society formed at that time might cause the membership to decline so seriously as to prevent the formation of new contracts by the directors, and so lead to a collapse. The very fact that no capital would be sunk by the society's failure, may some day lead to lukewarmness in its support which will prove its ruin. At present, however, its success is very noteworthy...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: As we do not issue our next number until the eleventh, we request you to publish the following, in order to immediately prevent the further spread of the entirely erroneous impression given the college world by our blundering contemporary, the Yale News, in its issue of Nov. 3. Neither the editor-in-chief, nor any other editor of the Argo, ever sent any communication whatsoever to the managing or other editor of the Amherst Student. The letter printed by the latter, as coming from Williams, was simply a huge joke in the Student's usual ponderous style...