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...were a failure through the utter indifference of the students, for whose benefit they were intended. As for the Glee Club and Pierian, they have been continually disheartened by the apathy of the students. Year by year we must add to the trouble of rehearsing that of a personal canvass in and out of the college, succeeding with difficulty in raising sufficient money for defraying the current expenses. If it were not for the dancing, not a musical feature, it is doubtful whether we should even succeed in doing this. In view of these discouragements, is it to be wondered...
...silver, sea shells, hatchets, together with the bones of various animals, and, above all, several specimens of meteorie iron, which are the first ever discovered in these mounds. By the aid of the stereopticon Dr. Putnam was enabled to represent a number of these curious relics upon the canvass, which with the drawings of mounds lent no little additional attractiveness to the lecture...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD : I have just seen a letter in this morning's HERALD in which the secretary of '83 is taken to task by one of the class for not having begun the canvass for subscriptions to the class fund. This letter seems to me in questionable taste for several reasons. In the first place, if the secretary received a salary any member of the class would have a right to find fault, but instead of this a secretary does an immense amount of work for the class, and gets no return. His office is no sinecure...
...Nation contains another communication this week on religious tendencies at Harvard. The writer, "A Graduate," declares that "A Student's" statement in regard to the canvass of the college was erroneous, and, moreover, he maintains that the students of Harvard College are not entirely in favor of voluntary prayers...
...board of directors, in conjunction with the president and the secretary and treasurer, shall have entire jurisdiction over the affairs of the association. At the beginning of each academic year they shall be required, with the assistance of any others whom they may appoint to make a thorough canvass of the college for subscriptions...