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Harvard Union Debate. Sever 14, 7.30 p.m. *** Question: Resolved, That Home Rule in Ireland is indispensable to the future welfare of the British Empire...
...next Harvard Union debate takes place March 18, 1886. The subject is 'Resolved: That a Measure of Home Rule for Ireland is essential to the welfare of the British Empire." Principal disputants, affirmative, Prince L. Campbell, '86, J. H. Proctor, '89; negative, G. P. F. Hobson, '86, J. W. Richardson...
Probably the most marked change in college discipline has come in the matter of personal direction which was then supposed to take the place of parental discipline. One of the many rules laid down was that every undergraduate must wear a black coat on Sundays. Disobedience to this law incurred nearly the same punishment as drunkenness or any of the other capital crimes. The narrator remembers a circumstance in connection with the rule which is worth repeating. One of his friends, a quiet and studious young man, not knowing the regulation, had provided himself before entering college with a Sunday...
...Russians, a man of middle age, was a medical student. As a teacher, a lay doctor, and the propagandist of liberal ideas, he wandered over Russia for ten years. He had seen with pitying eye the misery and suffering of his native land under the despotic rule of the Czar. He had followed his own brother, banished without trial, in his weary march to Siberia, until driven away from the band of exiles by the brutal blows of the guards. Soon he expected to take his degree, and then to wander again as a physician and propagandist among the peasants...
...likely to be made third baseman. He is a good man. Heaton is also trying for this place. There are several candidates for positions in the out-field. The most promising men are Pervere, Downer, who is a very strong batsman, Pillsbury, Shapleigh and Hunneman. These men, as a rule, are also fair batsmen. Among the other candidates, the following are worthy of notice: Munro, Marvin, Cabot, Woodbury, Slattery...