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...part of the stockholders--already vouched for by their long continuance in appointments at the hands of the President and Fellows--are the main requisites. With abundance of friendly advisers always at hand in the persons of representative graduates and undergraduates to whom the stockholders would no doubt freely resort for confirming the wisdom of their own selections, wise selection of Directors would be assured. Should the management at any time become unsatisfactory to the ticket-holders, the interests of the stockholders as honorable, public-spirited men in a position of trust would lead them to bend every energy...
...deprived of a check which has proved wholesome in the past. It remains to be seen how far its positive and obvious advantages outweigh this defect. In the first place, it is to fill its own vacancies, and therefore to insure higher experience and greater continuity of management. No doubt it is desirable that such an important business should be relieved from the fluctuations of accidental choice of Directors; and though Mr. Meyer assures us that in practice the Board nominates its own successors, there have been cases where that precaution did not prevent a few persons from election...
...average use of the Library during the first eighteen Sundays of last year was 164; during the corresponding Sundays of this year, 132 1-2. The falling off was due, no doubt, to the opening of the Harvard Union. On the average 32 volumes are called for from the stack each Sunday afternoon. WILLIAM C. LANE, Librarian...
...Advocate Song," words by R. Inglis and music by F. M. Class, is good, no doubt, but of rather more interest to the Advocate editors than to its readers. "From Night Till Dawn," by R. P., "An Explanation," by Herbert C. Thorndike, and "Music," signed Hyde O'Haslie, are all good poems--simple and yet pointed, well placed and rhythmically pleasant...
...defeated by the Salem High School last night at Salem by the score of 42 to 34. Both teams played excellently, but the Salem players were a trifle more accurate in passing and receiving the ball. The game was close and exciting throughout and the result was in doubt until the end. Individually, Randall for the Freshmen, and Hurley for Salem, were the most effective...