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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...personal assurance, based on his knowledge of the affairs of the society, that if this sum is raised, there will be in June a surplus of stock over liabilities. The society could never become a success so long as every summer it had to end the year without a clear surplus in the form of stock on hand. From the nature of the business, it is impossible to clear out and sell everything at the end of each year ; a certain amount of stock left on hand is inevitable ; and if this stock is not the clear property...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/2/1885 | See Source »

...among our thousand and four undergraduates. That there are in reality plenty of such men is well proved by the number present at the meeting. That the club as newly constituted will be a success, the enthusiasm shown by its members is a guarantee, Only let these members steer clear in future of Harvard indifference and we shall all hope to see their club placed on a plane of usefulness as great as that now occupied by the Historical Society and Finance Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/24/1885 | See Source »

...CRIMSON: -In certain courses, hours are set apart by certain instructors, in which a voluntary recitation is held, when the instructor reviews certain subjects in connection with the course. This practice, I think, is very commendable, as very frequently there are certain things which have not been made as clear as the instructor has hoped, and it is necessary that more explanation should be given. But, as has happened recently, when this hour has been set, after all recitations have ceased by the order of the faculty, it seems to me that the practice is both contrary to college authority...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 1/22/1885 | See Source »

...last recitation the members of Political Economy 1 were regaled with a clear and lengthy lecture on the old, old subject, cause of so much controversy and confusion to the average student, "A demand for commodities is not a demand for labor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/20/1885 | See Source »

...with Yale and Princeton, and a set of revised rules submitted to these colleges. Satisfactory arrangements could not be made, however, before the meeting of the faculty, and accordingly another delay was asked. We still fail to see why the committee did not make this state of things clear to the faculty and, moreover, submit their proposed revision of the rules to that body. The faculty could then have had some ground to work upon and would not have been left so much in the dark as to the students' intentions. A petition might have been handed in praying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/10/1885 | See Source »

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