Word: conference
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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There needs little to be said to show the injustice of this practice, and we wish it were diminishing rather than increasing. The fact of living in a desirable room for three or four years ought to satisfy in itself, for it certainly does not confer the right of considering the room an heirloom to be handed down in perpetuity. But even worse than making over rooms to one's friends is the bartering for and selling of such rooms, often at a scarcity value. In condemnation of this we think nothing too severe can be said. It is difficult...
TICKETS for Class Day will be ready for distribution at 60 Thayer on Wednesday June, 10. No tickets will be delivered until the assessment of ten dollars has been paid. All persons who do not intend to take their tickets will confer a great favor upon the Class Day Committee by informing them of it as soon as possible...
...first place, the authority of the government must be obtained, and this the government can either give or refuse. Besides, the University alone can confer the degrees indispensable to a man who intends opening a school. There is yet more. The competition of the state destroys private enterprise. The state has at its disposition large resources, because it can draw on the purses of tax-payers. It can have installations more magnificent, and consequently professors more capable than the private individual, who cannot risk but a certain part of his capital Nor is this all. You can, it is true...
...autograph-book of the Class of '74 is being prepared, and members of the Class will confer a favor by calling at No. 39 Grays, between the hours of 2 and 3 P. M., and leaving their autographs. The book is to be neatly gotten up. On one cover is to be the stamp of the University, and in one corner, "Harvard '74." On the title-page will be written, "Autographs of the Class...
...requisite qualifications and degrees, can open a school. But it is here that we see the monopoly that the state has acquired; for, in the first instance, it alone can authorize the opening of a school, and secondly, it is the University alone that has the right to confer degrees and certificates; it is before it that all examinations must take place...