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...Noteworthy strategic movements. Movements to the Peninsula. Socalled Siege of Yorktown. Operations before Richmond, especially the defeat of McClellan by a movement on his right flank...
...Controverted questions. Necessity of the siege of Yorktown. Propriety and effect of withholding McDowell from McClellan. What McClellan should have done after the battle of May 31 and June 1. What McClellan should have done when at tacked on his right by Lee, June 27, 1862, etc., etc., etc. Especially question of possibility of McClellan's moving on Richmond by the James, in (say) August...
...student left the college grounds, the faculty had no control over him; it was true the faculty sent a representative to the convention of the faculties, and it was thought to be in favor of the resolutions, yet it was fair enough to state openly that it had little right to assume much control over affairs outside of the campus and which did not seriously interfere with college duties. Cornell's representative said the faculty would ascertain the feeling of the students before taking action; the students were strongly opposed to them. The young gentlemen from the College...
...head of our mathematical department, our classical department, modern language department and our scientific departments do not receive a salary of more than $4,000. These are facts that ought to be known, and they show a state of things that ought to be remedied. It is not right that gentleman engaged in one of the highest of human callings should be deprived of the ordinary social advantages which men of their culture and learning are justly entitled...
Another obnoxious resolution is that numbered five. This seems to us to be a matter in which the faculties are not called upon to interfere. If any man in any one of the schools belonging to the university wishes to play ball or row, the faculty have no right to say that he shall not. It is a matter for the students to decide whether there is any objection to a man's playing longer than four years. More, it seems to us to be a direct attack upon Harvard as a university. As such, it is right that...