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...third year of the life of this organization. Though it was begun as a tariff reform club, the character of the men who filled its membership made it evident that as new and more urgent political questions arose the club would continue to take a liberal stand and fulfill rather the purpose of a general reform club than that which its name would imply. In getting Mr. Breckenridge and Mr. Moorfield Storey to make addresses on interesting political questions the Club has earned the thanks of the University; and similar talks from any of the representative Harvard men mentioned...
...they are more or less a fixture in the University, it is not right to ask for a change of their date. Such being the case, we hope that Professor Cooke will, if possible, make arrangements to give his lectures on some other evening in the week rather than on Tuesday...
...could secure his degree for fourteen courses instead of eighteen as at present. The Harvard faculty proposes no such radical reduction in the requirement for the degree. If it be said that the work done in the professional school does count some toward the A. B. degree,-a rather specious plea it is true, the plan is still open to serious objection. The faculty here say that the A. B. degree should represent broad, liberal training, and not the technical work of the professional schools. They have held to this conception of the meaning of the degree in their proposed...
...Curtain," is a whimsical character sketch of an exceedingly prurient young man and a young lady a la mode,-at least we should judge the young man to be prurient, as the point of view is from behind a curtain in the young lady's boudoir. There is a rather vivid description of this room given in the first part, but taken as a whole the sketch reminds one of a judicious mixture of Town Topics and Algernon Swinburne...
...freshman Glee Club is hard at work rehearsing three times a week under the leadership of H. F. Taylor. The present situation is rather disheartening, for the club has lost much valuable time owing to the lateness of its organization and to the necessity of suspending work during the mid-years; besides the majority of the men read with great difficulty, so that all new music has to be drilled into them little by little, which makes their progress unusually slow. In addition to these disadvantages, the club has suffered a great deal from the scarcity of first tenors...