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...future. The committee which had been appointed to consider the expediency of printing the names of the graduates in English instead of Latin, reported favorably for the change, and the following motion proposed by Mr. Sargent was carried, and the motion accepted : "That the board of overseers advise and recommend that the Quinquennial Catalogue should be printed in English...
Yale has taken a stride ahead, and abolished the Greek and Latin salutatories. All well done. The practice has only antiquity to recommend it. And it is probable that not only not one in one thousand of those who have listened to the salutations this commencement season could intelligently follow the speakers, but that could an old-time Attic Greek, or a Ciceronian Roman listen to the modern 'commencement' orations in the original tongues, he would be beside himself with a laughter at the queer jumble. Doubtless the average senior Latin or Greek oration bears pretty much such a resemblance...
...they go to the Library they must lose the first part of their lecture. Nor does the inconvenience end with themselves. By the delay they cause to the lecture through their late arrival in the classroom, they trespass on the rights of the rest of the class. We recommend to the Library Council, then, that they close the Reading room of the Library before sunset to readers only. Let any one get access to the reserved books, to draw them, until a quarter after four...
...regret that I have observed the position which the Shakspere club is contented to occupy. There appeared in the CRIMSON a short time ago a communication which advanced the claim that a society constituted as the Shakspere club is, cannot meet the oratorical requirements of a great college, and recommended the formation of an intercollegiate oratorical association. While I do not consider this recommendation suited to the requirements of Harvard, in view of the excellent instruction in elocution at present furnished to the students, yet I do believe that a higher educated power of oratory is of no mean importance...
...distance for a photographic club after the room has been obtained. Such as a man to clean up and do dome of the fifty work. But enough of this. I will co-operate with any endeavor to get up such a club as is proposed, and I recommend all students who themselves take photographs or who expect to take them in the near future, to accept the invitation in another column...