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...following sketch of the growth and constitution of the governing boards of Harvard University, by W. T. Hewett, will be of interest: "Harvard University presents certain points of resemblance to the system of the English colleges. By the charter of 1650, which is still in force, the president and fellows of Harvard College became a body corporate, enjoying the right of administering the funds and making all rules for the government of the college, as well as of electing their successors in office. The former board of overseers was retained, embracing the governor, the deputy governor, and the leading clergymen...
...numerous clubs and societies at Harvard are open to freshmen - at least until the end of the year. So far as we are aware the only literary society to which freshmen are admitted is the Harvard Union, a short sketch of which appeared in our columns recently. The annual assessment of the union for the year is twenty-five cents. Debates on public questions are the chief business of the union. All freshmen are urged to join and, if desiring, to take an active part in the debates...
...following short sketch of the recent meetings of the famous Phi Beta Kappa is from the College Mercury...
...first of Dr. W. T. Harris' course of ten lectures on "The Philosophy of Education" was given Saturday morning Wesleyan Hall. His lecture dealt with education in its primitive forms, and included an interesting sketch of Chinese methods of teaching...
...still, although we acknowledge the truth of the sketch as far as it goes, it does not go far enough. It is not fair for a writer to attempt to give an account of such an institution as Harvard and then give only one side of it. Of course the book is not professedly an account of every phase of life in the university; but the fact that it takes the matter up at all would require that some slight mention at least be made of other sets besides that which Bixby and Symonds cultivated. For there is another...