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...following is the membership of the various clubs, computed from the Index: Hasty Pudding Club, 64; Pi Eta, 30; O. K., 18; Signet, 21; Alpha Delta Phi, 34; Delta Upsilon, 12; Beta Theta Pi, 20; Zeta Psi, 29; Institute of 1770, 73; Everett Athenaeum, 36; St. Paul's, 105; Christian Brethren, 45; Natural History Society, 63; Harvard Union, 119; Pierian Sodality, 32; Glee Club, 22; Associate Members of both organizations, 35; Bicycle Club, 91; and Co-operative Society, over...
...contrary, was in the habit of issuing reports of this kind only at rare intervals of five years or more. There the college has been treated more as a close corporation than is the case at Harvard. This fact led to a lengthy discussion in the columns of various newspapers some time ago, in which the insignificant number of bequests that had been made of recent years to Yale was attributed to it. Harvard, on the other hand, has laid open the minutest details of her administration to the public scrutiny, and thus has invited public confidence. The result...
...board of overseers yesterday forenoon the annual reports of the president and treasurer of the university for 1881-82 were presented. A synopsis of the more important points of the two reports follows. The president's report first refers to the loss by death or resignation of various officers of the university, and enumerated the appointments to various positions made during the year...
...These various restrictive measures have on the whole commended themselves to the judgment of the whole body of students and graduates. "When games are made a business they lose a great part of their charm, and college sports cannot approach the professional standard of excellence without claiming the almost exclusive attention of the players, and becoming too severely monotonous and exacting to be thoroughly enjoyable...
...loose tenure of the various class funds calls for some provisions. It is suggested that, for example, the Association of the Alumni might furnish from its officers a small body of trustees to hold class funds, to pay the income of each fund to the order of the class secretary, and to dispose of each fund by fixed rules upon the extinction of the class to which it belonged. This subject is respectfully commended to the attention of the alumni...