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...Senior recently received a chiding letter from his father, who had heard from the Faculty that his son was in danger of losing his degree. The son replied by offering to bet his father fifty dollars that h would bring home his sheepskin...
...following gentlemen have been elected by the Senior Class of the Law School to prepare Commencement parts: L. D. Brandeis, R. H. Dana, W. B. Gano. H. P. Starbuck, A. S. Thayer, W. H. Tuttle. The Faculty is to decide which one of the parts shall be delivered at Commencement...
...will be remembered that it was only after some hesitation that the Faculty decided to give voluntary attendance upon recitations another year's trial with the present Senior class. It was hoped that the class would appreciate the fact that the system is as yet an experiment, and would do nothing to embarrass its final adoption. These anticipations, we are informed by the Dean, have not been realized. As far as can be judged by the returns up to the present time, the system has this year been used with much more license than it was last year...
SINCE we last spoke of the affairs of the Senior Class, continued efforts have been made to secure a definite settlement of the disputed points. The committee of graduates, to whom the matter was referred for advice, recommended a compromise which made it necessary, after the nature of compromises, for each one of the four factions to resign something that each had cherished. When the representatives who had met the committee laid the proposed compromise before the several bodies they represented, there arose questions of what was understood and what was implied, which left the exact result of the compromise...
DIED in Cambridge, on the 18th of March, Hon. Emory Washburn, aged 77. At the time of his resignation, a few months ago, Governor Washburn was the senior professor in the University, having filled his chair for twenty years. He had previously borne high office, and performed distinguished service, alike in the executive, legislative, and judicial departments of the State government, and had been, from his early manhood, a successful and honored member of the legal profession. He was a man of excellent ability, of the most strenuous diligence, of an integrity absolutely impenetrable, and of a benevolence which made...