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...meeting of New York college presidents, a committee was appointed "to consider and report upon any methods of strengthening the position and enlarging the influence of the colleges of the State" There is to be a meeting of college presidents and professors at Rochester some time during the spring...
...petition sent to the Corporation, asking for a spring vacation, has not yet been heard from. It seems that the Faculty ask only for the whole of Fast Day week, - a week at present partly broken up, - which is certainly a very modest request. But there is some fear that if this week is allowed us, a week will be taken from the summer vacation, - that long recess which has lately been one of our greatest glories. A number of men who live beyond the Ohio are induced to come to Cambridge, in preference to any other Eastern college...
...that the statement, coming from such high authority, is in the main correct. We do not, however, remember any past Commencement when the whole class performed, so we are led to suspect that this is a new device which the "tyrants and oppressors" - the Faculty - have conspired to "spring" upon us this year, and that their wicked plot has leaked out upon the prairies of Illinois. Let every Senior, therefore, begin immediately on his three-and-one-half-minute performance. Yet, if it is not too late, we would humbly suggest that there is one serious objection to the innovation...
...meeting of the McGill foot-Ball Club on 23d November, the question of sending a team to Cambridge to play with us was debated. One speaker said "that no challenge should be sent to Harvard for a match in the spring; that it was desirable to make this match an annual one, and playing too often would be the surest means of breaking it down altogether. He thought also that Harvard was too strong a club to risk a game against without the training and practice that could only be got in the fall." His view seems to have been...
...captain requests us to say that more candidates are wanted, and any one who has a desire to play ball next spring should present himself now at the gymnasium...