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...James Russell Lowell, Rev. Edward Everett Hale, and President Eliot; the Psi Upsilon has seventeen chapters, and among its members are Professors William W. Goodwin, James M. Pierce, and Alexander E. Agassiz. Mr. Baird concludes that the fraternities "are a help to their members, and a valuable and efficient aid to good college government...
...members of the Annex were fitted for college at Vassar, Smith College, the high schools in Newton, Somerville, Waltham, Beverly, and Brookline; Packer Institute, Bradford Academy, and Miss Hubbard's School in Boston. A few were prepared by aid of the Harvard Examinations for Women, and of the Society for the Encouragement of Studies at Home...
...receivers of scholarships that I speak. I have no sympathy to waste on any one of those who considers the aid given him an alms, or its acceptance a humiliation. The President's words on this subject were well chosen and directly to the point. My purpose is rather to deny that money given in scholarships is in any sense a charity, and to denounce in the strongest terms any attempt by undergraduate or outsider to arouse or increase that notion. It is a false one, wholly unworthy of the men who advance it. For what was the purpose...
WHILE we are strongly opposed to the present system of scholarships, we have not the slightest objection to a system that shall dispense pecuniary assistance privately, and according to their needs, to deserving students; we fully realize that much good may be done by this kind of aid. This, however, is a very different thing from publicly awarding a definite sum of money as a prize for meritorious work. It is the incongruous mixing of these two systems - each good in its place - which is objected to. Our grievance, in short, is this: first, that there is no system...
Saturday evening a ball was given, at Delmonico's, by the ladies of New York, in aid of the University Crew. Mr. Franklin Bartlett, '69, led the "German," and under such able guidance the party could not be otherwise than a marked success...