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...known that a change has been suggested in our club system, and that a canvass is now being carried on to ascertain what probability of success it may have. A full and explicit statement of the matter may not, however, be superfluous...
...board at Memorial Hall for November was $4.67, which is less than was anticipated. The affairs of the Association, however, have reached a crisis. Men still continue to leave; and if the number is further diminished the Association will be unable to go on after the holidays. To ascertain what is the feeling among the students on this question, a book will this week be placed at the Bursar's office, which men who are in the Association and who intend to stay in it are requested to sign; men who now board outside willing to come into the Hall...
...this plan will be devoted to subscriptions to art journals, and in general to the collection of a library of reference for students of art. At the same time the co-operation of a certain number of students is necessary to carry out this plan, and in order to ascertain if it be practicable, all those who would like to subscribe are requested to send their names, as soon as possible, to Barrett Wen-dell, 9 Linden Street...
...Advocate devote their attention to "the coalition, prearranged or implied," which, in their opinion, is sufficient to render null and void an open election. Without examining the peculiar constitution of an election, whose validity is made dependent upon conditions, the existence of which it would be impossible to ascertain, and which were not declared to be binding until after the election, and then by a deeply chagrined minority, I shall devote myself to the consideration of coalitions, in general and in particular...
...ascertain the bent of undergraduates from the electives they choose, we can settle this point by consulting the Catalogue for '75 - '76. There we find about thirty optional courses which can properly be called literary. Comparing the number of men who have taken these electives with the number who have elected Mathematics, Philosophy, History, Physics, Chemistry, Natural History, and Music, we find an excess of ten per cent in favor of purely literary studies...