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...decision of the Police Commissioners, not-withstanding the report to the contrary, was favorable to the Phi Beta Kappa, and the policeman was censured for unnecessary violence. The eye-witness did not support the officer's statement that he was a???culted. The society has obtained all that could be expected from the Police Commissioners; but it will not let the matter rest here, but will carry the case before a higher court, and it is to be hoped that this will have the effect of checking the numerous outrageous misrepresentations of Harvard which appear in the Boston press...
...Dean's Report we are told that the semi-annual period of examinations was shortened in order to check a "serious diminution of the time for instruction." That the expansion of the elective system had made this step necessary, no one will deny; and the scheme of groups, far from being open to criticism, is to be approved, because it allows an indefinite increase of the number of the electives and extension of the time for examinations, if the Faculty have a mind to grant it. Shortening the period for the mid-years was, therefore, a matter of expediency...
...Harvard Divinity School has again become the theme of discussion, owing to some statements about it in President Eliot's Report. The facts of the case are these, - to put them briefly, - the School aims to be unsectarian, and is not. A writer in the Nation for Feb. 12 points out some of the causes for this discrepancy between the profession and practice there. The course of instruction, while it assumes to give a "free inquiry into theology," in reality obliges every student to follow out prescribed studies, and offers no electives. Owing to this, many members of the School...
NOTWITHSTANDING the report of the Committee of the Overseers in favor of the eligibility of Dr. Bellows, the Board have decided that Dr. Bellows is not a member of that body, because he is not a citizen of Massachusetts. The reasons for the decision seem to be largely based upon the fact that a similar committee, six years ago, decided that ex-President Hill of Portland was not eligible to the Board. In the first place, the cases are not parallel. Dr. Hill forfeited his seat by removing from the State. It might well be a question, in such...
...forty years has edited the Triennial Catalogue, is now engaged in preparing the Quinquennial for 1880, and all who are interested in having their names correctly printed, with all their honors, or who can make corrections respecting any of the graduates, or furnish information of deaths, ought to report immediately...