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...others to remove all impression from the bystanders that college men had any connection with the parade. The value of obedience is shown by the result, for henceforth the Faculty ceased to interfere in the matter. The procession of '76 was notable for its transparencies. "Hayes and Wheeler and Reform in the Faculty," "Honesty in Policies and Cribs in Examinations," "Free Trade, a free Press, and Free Beer," "Hard Money and Soft Electives;" these were some of the stirring principles announced. That the students were also unusually patriotic that year, was shown by their frequent appeals to the "Spirit...
...career, being frequently interrupted by applause. Mr. Sewall was followed by Mr. Sannders, who, upon arising was saluted with thunders of applause. The speaker, in the most able argument of the evening, compared the records of the two parties and assailed the claims of the Democratic party to a reform policy. Mr. Hansen and Mr. Sanford both spoke with great force and pretinancy...
...call for reform in the telegraph office in Cambridge has been made, and we wish to lend the weight of our influence to the move. The service supplied to us by the Western Union, to which company the office belongs, is certainly wretched as the regulations show. The business people and citizens of Cambridge are subject to this inconvenience all the year round, and must feel it considerably. The same is true of the body of students, who, connected with all parts of the country by family ties, are often subjected to great personal inconvenience by the delay in receiving...
...effort is being made by a few of the instructors in political economy, aided by some of the students, to enroll as many Massachusetts students as possible in the Massachusetts Tariff Reform League, the object of which is a reduction in the present tariff rates. While we do not intend to advocate either side of the great struggle which is going on between the tariff men and the revenue reformers, the subject certainly deserves to receive careful consideration at the hands of every student, if he has not already done so. The present canvass, which is, however, confined...
...graduate of high standing suggests through the columns of the daily press, that the friends of "voluntary chapel" at Harvard, take pains, before returning their nominees for overseers to the committee, to satisfy themselves by private inquiry that their preferred candidates are favorable to the reform in question. This gentleman states in addition, that he is working to ascertain the opinions of all the candidates, and hopes to make them known to the public. This suggestion seems to us quite opportune. With such a large majority of the members of the board of overseers in favor of compulsory prayers...