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...will be glad to hear that two hundred and seventy-five dollars have been handed over to the treasurer of the Union as the net proceeds of the entertainment. This sum is larger than was expected and will tend in no small degree to place the Union on a firmer financial basis...
...foot ball arrangement entered into with Harvard, printed in another column, will be greeted as a definite settlement of a matter that has given a good deal of trouble in past years. The terms of the agreement seem to be perfectly fair and it should put on a much firmer and more satisfactory basis our relations with Harvard in foot ball...
...adopted for removal; or, if the School of Arts had been abolished a few years ago (a question which was very seriously discussed), the problem would be greatly simplified. But the School of Arts has survived the danger, and is about to be put on far broader and firmer foundations, which should greatly increase its attractions. One of the conditions of expansion of the School of Arts appears to be the erection of dormitories. In the American college, as in the English college, community of residence seems to be necessary to a high degree of prosperity. In small towns...
...organization known as the Union of Clubs seems now to be established on a plan firmer - though less elaborate - than ever before. The need of such an organization to furnish a comfortable meeting place for the many smaller clubs at Harvard was felt for some time before measures were finally taken two years ago to supply it. The plans which were then proposed were a trifle too elaborate; they were none too great in proportion to the need, but a trifle beyond what consverative estimates would warrant. The consequence was, that last year the Union of Clubs was unable...
...will be on a more satisfactory basis under the sole control of the faculty of arts and sciences than when the courses were arranged by one body and the degrees recommended by another. The Scientific School is not absorbed, as might seem at first glance, but put on a firmer foundation. All its officers and instructors were members of the college faculty. At present the instructors, though still members of the faculty of arts and sciences, will form a separate administrative board, and will have their interests more closely bound to the Scientific School. The school has shown a constantly...