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...TUESDAY.College Faculty. Special meeting a University...
...country, a divinity school, and a School of All Sciences. While the curriculum of the collegiate department is to a great extent prescribed, a large choice of electives is allowed to upper classmen. The scientific department is under the instruction of the professors of the Institute of Technology. Special arrangements have been made with the Boston Public Library authorities, which give the students of the university exceptional advantages in their use of books...
...Arthur Perrin and Albert Thorndike were appointed principal and assistant inspectors of polls at the next election of overseers. Mr. Russell presented the report of the committee on the relation of the college faculty to the Board of Overseers, and this was accepted and laid on the table. The special assignment on the proposed plan of examinations for admission to the college came up, and communicetions from presidents of New England colleges upon the general subject were received, when it was voted to consider the same in connection with the subject. After a somewhat lengthy discussion, the board adjourned...
...decisive example of the Corporation, and voted that it is inexpedient not to compel attendance at morning prayers. The report which was adopted was drawn up by the Rev. Dr. Peabody, who for many years officiated at the college chapel. He had, we believe, as a colleague on the special committee, the Rev. Phillips Brooks, who now occasionally performs the service asked to be made voluntary. There was a manifest impropriety in putting any clergyman on such a committee, much more two who may fairly be called interested parties. The petition of the undergraduates was the largest ever known...
...performance, and it is expressing the truth but faintly to say that the large audience was deeply moved by it." All the New York papers spoke very favorably of the play. The party left New York on the Fall River boat on Wednesday afternoon. At 6 P.M. a special supper was served on the boat, the "Bristol," for the Hasty Pudding men, after which they entertained themselves and the passengers by several songs, and banjo selections in the after-cabin. The club arrived in Cambridge yesterday morning after a most enjoyable trip from beginning...