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...correspondence, to be found in our columns this morning, contains a sensible suggestion, and we hope that this attempt to mediate between the Memorial directors and their constituents will be successful. A vote on the subject of doing away with coffee on the dinner bill of fare would show the directors the sentiment of the members, but though this should be regarded in reconsidering the matter, the decision should by no means rest with the vote. The directors are the best judges in regard to the expenses of the hall, and a vote of the members should, as a rule...
...recent dinner of Williams College Alumni, President Carter reported that the college never was more deserving of affection than now. "There are," he said, "three Yale men, two Harvard men, and one Amherst man now in the faculty, and I could show you in five minutes where half a million could be placed and not be noticed. We expect $50,000 from the Clarke estate and shall raise each professor's salary $300 next commencement. We are the only college which has prayers twice a day, and we want to keep it a Christian nursery...
...Charles-River Railroad have adopted an excellent way of designating the horse-ears on the different routes. On the top of the cars in front are placed large wooden balls, and the colors of these balls show the route of the cars. The Union Railway should adopt some similar method...
...Pach has consented to allow those seniors not satisfied with pictures already made, to sit again, provided such sittings be made within this week. By terms of the contract all sittings were to be finished today; and it is sincerely hoped that each member of the class will show his appreciation of the privilege thus extended by accepting a negative before Saturday night...
...class of 1679, is now first recorded. The most noted name among Harvard's dead is that of Josiah Quincy, '21. The usual minute and scholarly list of accessions to the library follows, many interesting titles being included. History and geography, and law and sociology, are the departments that show the largest gains, a valuable collection of the library in Scottish containing numerous rare titles, being here carefully and minutely catalogued. A collection of the acts of the Scottish parliament dated 1566 is here included. Under "Literature" Dumas' complete works are entered, taking two full pages of the Bulletin. Volume...