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...amended as was Section 2 at the last meeting, in regard to the election of committee members from the departments of the University. In Article VI, the only amendments were in Section 1, the words "at 8 p. m.," and the last clause--"in which case, etc.," being stricken out. In Article VII, Section 3 was amended as follows: "All members or past members of Harvard University not resident in Cambridge are eligible to non-resident membership." Consideration of Section 5 about life membership was postponed. Section 7 was amended so that names of candidates shall be posted...
...cannot be pessimistic, we who in our own time have seen so many good things accomplished,- have seen slavery disappear and polygamy and international literary piracy; we who have seen the beginning of the protection of our forests; our ballot laws so vastly improved and the spoils system stricken a tall blow. But we shall meet with disaster after disaster in America-and perhaps one disaster more than even our constitution can stand, if we do not exert ourselves constantly in the elevation of public affairs...
...announce its decision five weeks before the same date. The list of judges shall contain not less than twenty names and must be proposed at least six weeks before the debate, and the University to which the list is sent shall return it within a week with the names stricken out to which it objects. No man shall act as judge at any intercollegiate debate who is a graduate of either of the universities participating in the debate. Judges are to be instructed to give their decision upon the merits of the discussion, alone regardless of the relative strength...
...weeks before the same date. The list of judges shall contain not less than twenty names and must be proposed at least six weeks before the debate and the university to which the list is sent shall return it within one week with the names to which it objects stricken out. No man shall act as judge at any intercollegiate debate who is a graduate of either of the universities participating in the debate...
Johnson's life was one of hard and poverty-stricken labor. At the age of twenty-six he had married a woman of forty-eight who had no beauty and very little fortune. Johnson was besides encumbered by several pensioners, even poorer than he, whose misfortunes had excited his pity. "The Rambler," "The Lives of the Poets," and the Dictionary-finished in 1755 after a Jacobean struggle of seven years-had brought the doctor fame, but comparatively little money. In 1759, however, came a pension of three hundred pounds from the government and it is from the subsequent brighter days...