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...board of overseers at their last meeting requested the committee on government to "consider and report promplly on the advisability of making attendance upon recitations and lectures compulsory." This action shows plainly that either the overseers fail to understand the way in which attendance at recitations is regulated by the present system, or else labor under the delusion that in such a rule as they propose lies the only way of making students appear regularly at recitations. In the first place, at the present time the instructor is the judge as to whether or not a student comes to recitations...
...freshman class at the Annex is talking about getting up a four-oared crew on the Charles. We understand that the crew does not propose to race...
...received proper attention, a fact which can be accounted for only by surmising that the authorities have considered that these rooms either are not exposed to the dangers of a great fire, or that the almost inaccessible iron fire escapes are a sufficient protection. It is impossible to understand why the men living in Holyoke House rooms situated three and four stories above the gound should be left only half protected against fire, while men living in other college buildings have efficient means provided them in saving themselves in case of an emergency...
...able litterateur and a brilliant lecturer. In order to give his lecture here, Mr. Coquelin has been forced to make a considerable sacrifice, as his time in Boston is very limited and his friends numerous. For those who do not know enough French to be able to understand all that M. Coquelin will say, but who are none the less desirous of hearing the wonderful speaker, we would suggest that they can get the substance of what he will lecture upon by reading in Harper's Monthly of a few months past an article by M. Coquelin on the same...
...that there is a growing consensus of opinion pointing to absolute temperance, and that to succeed in life a man must follow in this opinion. In the speaker's college days men considered it necessary to take stimulants in order to become strong; but the athletes of to-day understand that in order to make the most of themselves they must practice total abstinence. In fact it is the growing opinion that if a man would fortify himself against the strains of human life he must leave alcohol alone. The speaker cited the case of the business man and declared...