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...students of Williams are getting up an excursion to Boston for the Thanksgiving recess. "It will furnish," says the Argo, "a fine opportunity to visit the 'Hub of the Universe,' with its numerous attractions in the shape of libraries, art museums, theatres, etc., etc., and also offering a fine chance to visit our sister college at Cambridge." The students of Harvard will be very glad to welcome the students of Williams, if they will come...
...desire to alter, if possible, the impression given by the leading editorial in the Crimson of November 11, that a petition requesting the extension of the Thanksgiving recess from Wednesday until Monday, was entirely neglected by the faculty. The editorial was, no doubt, generated by the proper spirit, but when we know the true facts of the case we shall see that it has not the slightest ground for its flippant sarcasm. We learn from the best authority that a petition was found by the dean on his table, signed by several hundred names of students in different departments...
...presentation of a petition with no address is in itself sufficient recommendation for no notice. But this unanimous expression of the students' desire for one more play-day to be added to their Thanksgiving recess, was in no wise slighted and will be considered and acted upon in due time. These few facts might well be stated here. In the first place, the appointment of vacations, their lengthening and shortening, is made by the corporation; secondly, the vacations, which have hitherto been satisfactory, are appointed in the statutes, and lastly, the college faculty is utterly powerless in the matter...
...learn that the faculty at their last meeting postponed the consideration of the petition for the extension of the Thanksgiving recess until their next meeting, which will be held one week from Monday. It appears, furthermore, that the faculty has no power to grant the desired extension. All that they can do is to consider the matter and send the petition with their recommendation to the corporation and board of overseers, who will grant it or not, as they see fit. It is not probable, however, that there will be time to take action upon the matter this year...
...annual joint debate between the two societies will take place immediately after the Thanksgiving recess. Messrs. Pierson, '83, Hubbard, '83, and Burke, '84, represent the Technians, and Holmes, F. D. Smith, and Badger, '83, the 'Logians...