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From a preliminary examination of the assets and liabilities of the society, the directors believe that the balance sheet at the end of the fiscal year will show an appreciable surplus. At the same time, the expenses during the past half-year have been heavy, partly on account of the cost of moving into the new quarters and fitting them up. Although the expenses during the coming half-year will not be so large as in that just passed, they will yet be considerable. No reduction in them can be made, consistently with the efficient performance of the necessary work...
...itself from the college certain privileges in the use of the library, but its request was summarily refused. It is therefore thought that by voluntarily extending to it the privileges of its membership the Co-operative Society, a body representing the larger part of the students, can gracefully show its superior courtesy and put the Harvard corporation to the blush...
Yale students will give two enter tainments for the benefit of their boat club. The programme will consist of a minstrel show by the Glee Club and a burlesque called "The Bakers Daughter...
Phillips Exeter Academy will next year send more men to Princeton than ever before. The preferences expressed by the members of the graduating class there show that Harvard is the choice of a majority, then Princeton, then Yale...
High scholarship is supposed to show itself in high collegiate standing. The student's sincere desire for the one and his ambition for the other ought harmoniously to work together in urging him on to do his best. Probably this idea was never realized in fact, even when all members of a class in college took the same studies throughout their course; under the elective system it is directly contrary to fact. The Harvard student today, in choosing his electives, finds that, in three several ways, the two motives which ought to act in unison are wholly antagonistic...