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...college who receives $5,000 a year, and the men who are at the 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...
...anniversary of the birthday of George Washington. In the absence of the fire-escape exhibition of last year the college found itself somewhat at a loss how suitably to celebrate this occasion with becoming ceremonies. With the noble simplicity characteristic of an intensely democratic community all the pomp and show which might mark such an occasion in any of the effete despotisms of a foreign civilization, was yesterday heroically dispensed with at Harvard. With tense brows and studious, downcast look. professors and students could be seen pacing the gravel-strewn walks of the yard, intent no doubt in recalling...
...regard to a faculty committee, is harmless padding. The committee would probably carefully mind its own business and let the students alone. The fifth resolution, in regard to no man engaging in sports more than four years, is some more padding. The conference committee wanted to make a show of having done something and resorted to that familiar trick of newspaper men of filling in with unimportant matter. The fourth and fifth resolutions are, therefore, in themselves comparatively harmless...
Cornell is to have a course of lectures on the subject of the "Protection of Home Industries." These will be followed by a course on "Free Trade." Thus both sides will have a fair show...
Some enterprising genius has proposed to found a wax-works show, similar to the famous Tussand's in New York. Among the sights will be a representation of "Benjamin F. Butler preparing a course of study to be pursued at Harvard University...