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...objection? The reasons for the plan are these: The freshmen of '85 have, it is undoubtedly true, proved themselves dilatory in several respects. We have, to a certain extent, (though for fair reasons) been somewhat backward in contributing to sports. It is doubtful whether we will be a "high stand" class, either, or will produce many honor men. But in one thing particularly we have been lacking - in class spirit. Undoubtedly we will exhibit many fine qualities before the end of our course, for there is good material in the class, but we cannot begin too soon to cultivate...
GREAT IMPORTANCE TO HARVARD UNIVERSITY."Let Shakspeare stand behind the door...
...return on the investment to supply in some measure the present deficit in the annual income of the university. If that happy time ever comes when Harvard is free from pressing money wants, then we may all unite in a prayer for a reduction in college rents. We can stand extortion when it is necessary, and when its fruits are devoted to a noble end, but perhaps sometime the day will come when it will be fitting for us to demand justice and reasonableness in these matters. But we give assurance that we do not make the suggestion...
...inconsistent by the fact that, after the adoption of the resolution concerning the president, another resolution `indorsing' the faculty in precisely the same terms was introduced and carried unanimously. But in the whole faculty there are only three who are not opposed to the president, so the six trustees stand in the singular position of men who look on at a fight and espouse both sides. The responsibility for the future of the college is now placed squarely on their shoulders...
...fell at Shiloh. His piece was entitled "The Lost Cause," and was an eloquent, highly rhetorical, and truly Southern defence of his people. Mr. Leonard is a New Yorker, and chose for his subject "William Lloyd Garrison," his oration being a review of the same question from a Northern stand-point and a vindication of the anti-slavery movement. Fifteen years after the bitter conflict has closed students from the opposing sections defend, on a New England college platform, each his own side of the conflict, and the faculty of the college, as loyal during the war to the Union...