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...Brown were readmitted, with the privileges of the floor but not of voting. The other four were rejected by the Convention by a greater or less majority, Union being excluded by a majority of only one. Harvard, on the ground of expediency, voted against them all. A motion was also carried providing for the ratification of the proceedings of this, a special meeting of the Association, at its regular meeting in April. In the absence of the Committee to nominate officers of the Convention, Mr. Ferguson, Commodore of the Schuylkill Navy, was allowed the floor, and gave the Association...
...adjourned till two o'clock. Proposed by Princeton to reconsider action in regard to the exclusion of Union; seconded by Harvard, who had voted previously in the majority on the ground that special arguments were presented in favor of Union; carried. Action in regard to the admission of Hamilton also reconsidered, and the main question on a tie vote decided by chair in favor of the admission of Hamilton. Harvard voted against the proposition. An amendment to the Constitution offered by Mr. Ferry of Yale subsequently withdrawn, and on motion of Harvard all amendments to the Constitution deferred till...
Although regarding ourselves as a medium for the expression of College opinion, we also regard it as part of our duty to prevent any hasty and extreme utterance of such opinion before the facts of the case are fully known, feeling, as we do, that such opinions have too often lost their proper weight by ill-advised expression. Before inquiring into this particular case, we must indicate, with all due respect to the Faculty, one cause which, we conceive, has produced by far the larger number of misunderstandings between Faculty and students. The decisions of our instructors in matters which...
...more moderate, who would not go so far as to deny the right of the Faculty to restrict the students' independence in such matters. For ourselves, we cannot see how the same reasons which would lead the Faculty to oppose an extended tour of the Glee Club should also lead them to prohibit all performances for money in Cambridge and Boston, where nine tenths of the audience are always the friends and relatives of the performers, and the fee is asked merely to defray expenses, and contribute to the support of boating. Cases by no means parallel have been regarded...
...25th of July dawned, and the day was all that could be desired; in consequence of my position as war correspondent of the Smithville Daily Herald, I obtained a reserved seat on board the stake-boat (a propeller of some 2,000 tons), where also were seated the one hundred Judges, all graduates of Harvard...