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...inadequacy of the bathing facilities in the gymnasium to meet the demands of those who wish to use them afternoons is becoming daily more and more apparent. Last year remonstrances and complaints were made to the gymnasium authorities about the matter, and, if we mistake not, a reform was promised. But the condition of things has not been changed in the least, and we have the same old picture of a group of shivering men in the bathroom waiting sometimes as long as a quarter of an hour to get a chance to use the shower-bath. During the winter...
...were informed some weeks ago, that the board of overseers were busy preparing a new set of regulations tending towards a so-called "reform" in college discipline, but we were not in any way prepared to receive such nonsensical resolutions as those passed at the last meeting of the board. If the purpose of the overseers is to set the university back on the same plan of college discipline on which it stood fifty years ago, the adoption of their last resolutions will accomplish that object most effectually. We had supposed that Harvard was no longer a "college...
...Massachusetts Society for Promoting Good Citizenship has arranged a course of public evening lectures on subjects relating to municipal government and reform. They will be given at the Old South Meeting House, on Monday evenings at 8 o'clock, beginning Jan. 7. The programme is as follows: Jan. 7, "The Possible Boston," the Rev. Edward Everett Hale; Jan. 14, "The Rise of American Cities," Professor Albert B. Hart; Jan. 21, "Birmingham: A Study of City Government in England," the Rev. John Cuckson; Jan. 28, "Berlin: A Study of City Government in Germany," Sylvester Baxter; Feb. 4, "The New Ballot System...
VIII. There is no argument for a government post-office system which does not apply with equal force to a government telegraph system.- Nation, 37, p. 90; Sen. Rep., 48th Cong., "Statements," p. 66; Jevons, Methods of Social Reform...
...telegraph does not fulfil the conditions for successful government management.- Hadley; Jevous, Methods of social reform...