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...petition sent to the Corporation, asking for a spring vacation, has not yet been heard from. It seems that the Faculty ask only for the whole of Fast Day week, - a week at present partly broken up, - which is certainly a very modest request. But there is some fear that if this week is allowed us, a week will be taken from the summer vacation, - that long recess which has lately been one of our greatest glories. A number of men who live beyond the Ohio are induced to come to Cambridge, in preference to any other Eastern college...
...learn from the Illini, the organ of the Illinois Industrial University, that at Commencement "Harvard College brings the whole class out, and limits their performances to three and one half minutes...
...information reaches us a little indirectly, but we dare say that the statement, coming from such high authority, is in the main correct. We do not, however, remember any past Commencement when the whole class performed, so we are led to suspect that this is a new device which the "tyrants and oppressors" - the Faculty - have conspired to "spring" upon us this year, and that their wicked plot has leaked out upon the prairies of Illinois. Let every Senior, therefore, begin immediately on his three-and-one-half-minute performance. Yet, if it is not too late, we would humbly...
...that the number of students in the University has more than doubled within the last thirty years, the present figure being 1370 against 611 in 1846-47. In the College the figures for 1876-77 are 821, against 272 in 1846-47. Within the same period the whole number of teachers in the University has increased from...
...impossible to trace in these figures the operation of any rule connecting scholarship with the more or less free use of the privilege in question. Upon the whole, then, the fair deduction from the returns of last year, whether they are examined with respect to average results, or with an inquiry into individual cases, appears to me to be the same which was drawn by my predecessor from the first year's trial of the system of voluntary attendance, - that the influence of the system on the general scholarship of the class, so far as it is exhibited...