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...Dutch Reform...
...Cambridge Civil Service Reform Association offers two prizes, of one hundred dollars, and fifty dollars, for short essays on the best methods of appointing executive officers, and selecting laborers in municipal governments, and the terms and tenures most suitable to municipal offices. Competition is open to all who may choose to write, and the whole subject or any branch thereof may be treated. It is expected that the essays will be examined by President Francis A. Walker of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Prof. Shaler of Harvard University, and Richard H. Dana, Esq., of Boston. Accepted essays will become...
...allow the freshmen to carry canes if they chose. and not to molest them in any way. This vote meets with the most cordial approval of the faculty, and President Seelye expressed himself highly gratified that the sophomore class of Amherst College should take the initiatory step toward a reform in the old and barbarous custom of hazing freshmen. The president considers the action as an outcome of the present system of government practised there, and thinks that the other colleges will follow the precedent established by the class...
...account of the dissatisfaction at Vassar with the present marking system, neither salutatory nor valedictory were delivered at the recent commencement exercises. This state of affairs has been preceded by a correspondence between the faculty and the seniors, which has been published. The original reasons for reform, which were sent to the faculty, were as follows...
...answer to this the president met the class informally, and, after stating his own opinion of the inexpediency of the reform aimed at, made the following communication from the faculty...