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...last meeting of the Harvard Union, the plan for adding a Legislative Branch was deemed inadvisable. Many of those, however, - including the President of the Union himself, - who considered it inexpedient for the Union to branch out in a new direction, yet favored strongly the foundation of a Legislative body which should be independent of the Union and should interfere with it in no way whatever...
Following up this suggestion, a number of men held an informal meeting on Monday last, the President of the Union presiding; and a committee was appointed by the chair to provide for the organization of a Harvard Legislature. This committee now ask space in your columns to state the purposes of the society contemplated...
...those who wish that the name of Harvard should not, as now, be connected with the idea of ignorance and indifference as regards parliamentary law, these reasons will commend themselves. Those who make the proposition appreciate to the utmost the importance and necessity of the training which the Union now gives, but they feel also that every man who purposes to be a good citizen ought to understand the workings of the law-making bodies of his country; and they fully believe that, in a Legislature of the nature intended, he would be enabled to gain such an understanding. They...
...Legislature, now in session in the Capitol," he said, pointing across the street. "The House sits in Memorial, and the Senate in Sanders. The traditional name of the Legislature is 'The Harvard Union.' A very interesting paper was read last night before the Historical Society on the origin of this title...
...learn that certain members of the Harvard Union are agitating again the plan of turning the Union from a debating into a legislative body. It will be remembered by those who attended the early meetings of the Union last year, that this scheme was proposed and, after some discussion, was voted down. The arguments against this innovation seem to us as valid now as they were then, and, moreover, the experience of nearly a year has shown that the present system is successful. It is hard to see the advantages of a college legislature, in which imaginary bills, committees...