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Students who desire to be considered candidates for membership in the Harvard Union are reminded that only one more meeting of the society will be held before the semi-annual election. The article of the constitution relating to membership is as follows:- "Any member of the University who shall have spoken in the debates of the society and shall have been proposed by the Executive Committee, shall be eligible to election as a member. "A four-fifths (4-5) vote of the members present taken by ballot shall constitute an election. Upon the payment of an initiation...
...lacrosse twelve will not begin regular gymnasium exercise on the chest-weights, dumbbells and running until after the semi annual examinations. Cage work will begin earlier, as soon as the cage is put in better order...
...significance in the last few years. Athletics are accorded their full scope, electives, without interfering with the most radical ideas of a liberal education, are multiplying, and now lastly but by no means of the least import comes the welcome intelligence that the faculty have decided in favor of semi-annual examinations. We are to be no longer tortured by a fearful looking forward to frequent judgements during the ten weary months of college work - the roots of such learning as we have acquired are to be permitted to sink deeply into the soil without being endangered by such exposure...
...Record euphoniously says "omitted," the ordinary college student would murderously say "cut." Without "cuts" the college man would find his life almost, perhaps quite unbearable; a statement, which is well proved by the fact that where cuts are not given occasionally, the student is very likely to take them semi-occasionally. Of course the conclusion follows at once that it is policy for instructors to do some "omitting" once in a while to forget to appear at their lecture rooms. In this way a real evil is averted and a decidedly pleasant feature of Harvard life brought into...
...brief recapitulation of his first lecture and then proceeded to give a sketch of Californian society since the Bear Flag movement. Marshall, who first discovered the gold, was found to be a thoroughly worthless man. The people of the early history of California often descended to a state of semi-barbarism, yet there was always a spirit of manhood and heroism which has brought California to the strength she has today. The miners were allowed to work the mines by the United States government only through sufferance. The idea that the stories of the pioneers are the only references which...