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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...publish to-day an account of the Advisory Conference Committee which was first organized at Williams in the spring of 1884, for the purpose of set tling the difficulties which arose between the students and faculty concerning the cane rushes which at that time excited considerable comment in the press of the country. The object for which the Committee was called together was simply to settle this one question, but its action was so satisfactory, and conducive of such excellent results that it has since been made a permanent feature of the disciplinary system. The Committee consists of twelve student...
Considerable comment has been made because as yet no arrangements have been announced for the lectures which we were promised from Mr. Godkin, the editor of the N. Y. Evening Post, on the subject of free trade. We remember the pleasure the college experienced in listening to Professor Thompson of the University of Pennsylvania, when that gentleman gave his lectures on Protection; and it is to be presumed that the lectures on free trade will be equally interesting, both from the ability of the lecturer and from the nature of the subject. The faculty, however, we understand...
...enterprise of the Harvard Union in inviting President Eliot to address the students, under its auspices, in Sanders Theatre, is most commendable. We have heard very much favorable comment among undergraduates in regard to this action of the Union, and the opportunity of hearing our President is looked forward to with great expectancy. The duties of the executive head of this university are so manifold that he could not be expected to conduct courses in some branch of learning, as is the custom with the presidents of almost all other American colleges, but that he has not hitherto taken occasion...
...exhibition of scientific sparring on Saturday, was the subject of much unfavorable comment from the audience...
Though we had occasion last year to comment editorially upon the fact that the students of the college displayed a remarkable disinclination to hand us any items of interest for publication in our columns, we feel justified in again calling attention to the point. The CRIMSON is the only medium for the communication of college news which the students possess. The editors of the paper, though giving all the attention possible to college happenings, are but students, after all, and have the same amount of college work to perform as their more fortunate brethren who are in no way connected...