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...close of the college year is always attended by meetings for the election of officers of the various organizations; several meetings have been held already. At the navy meeting the following officers were elected, into whose hands the boating interests of the University will be committed: President, E. A. Stevenson. '88; vice-president, C. W. Stewart, '88 S.; sub-treasurers, L. T. Snipe, '89, and F. T. Parlin, '88 S.; secretary, G. W. Woodruff, '89. Last evening the University Club tendered a very pleasant reception to the incoming members from the junior scientific and sophomore academic classes. The following officers...
...subject in the "Century" for March, 1887, is desirous of securing a composite photograph of the present senior class at Harvard for illustration of an article which he intends to write for the same magazine, and for which he has already a number of composite photographs of students in various colleges...
...land promised the Jews was a good one, but strange and full of dangers, where a, nation was to spring up beloved by the Lord. This is equally true of our country, the time is a good one, the best one that God has ever sent, but dangers of various kinds are ahead. Every evil by being crushed can be made to serve the purposes of the Lord. Greatest of these evils at the present time may be placed side by side, socialism and laziness. It is scarcely possible to conceive of a sin that tempts one like laziness...
...committee was appointed, with Treasurer Morgan as chairman, to take charge of the matter, and letters were at once written to the various steamship companies asking their lowest rates. Just at present we are deliberating on what our expenses would be after reaching America. Some friends of ours tell us that it is customary for the railroad and steamboat companies and hotels benefited by the crowds that go to such events to defray the expenses, and advised us either to write to them or to ask Harvard to learn for us what could be done in that direction. There would...
...greatest advantage of the new scheme is, as stated by the directors, that it would enable the Society to deal with all persons connected with the University. The Society ought to be a general agent for various objects, which it cannot touch at present. It ought, for instance, to print and sell at cost the various abstracts, summaries and outlines used in so many courses of instruction. It ought to import all the foreign text-books used. It cannot do these things while its dealings are restricted to its own members, an obstacle which is removed by the new scheme...