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...year with the society, and few new names were added to the constitution. Membership means total abstinence from all intoxicating liquors as a beverage, as long as one is connected with the university; but members are at liberty to resign at any time. There is no fee to join, and contributions to carry on the work are generally voluntary. An earnest invitation is extended to all members of the university to connect themselves with the League...
...students" - these words will never be forgotten by those who heard them at the time. It must be gratifying to the men who granted with doubt and fearing the almost unanimous petition of the students, to see the hearty way in which they join in the service and the numbers in which they attend it. If this enthusiasm be continued, and we do not doubt it is sincere. Harvard religion will not be an unknown quantity hereafter...
...Annex was never in so flourishing a condition as it is at present. At the spring and fall examinations there were more applicants for admission than ever before. The freshman class now numbers thirteen members, and several more will undoubtedly join the class in the next few days. The Annex will probably have about 85 students as compared with 75 last year. A sign of the prosperity of the Annex is the large number of advanced special students, graduates of Smith, Wellesley, and other colleges. In physics, the class is the largest ever known, and astronomy is studied...
...realized by the faculty, though Yale offers such a warning example of the same corruption. How far it is well or possible for the authorities to interdict such associations and how far to check them by sumptuary regulations I cannot say. Every parent, however, can forbid his son to join them, and may be sure that he will save not only the fees but contingent expenses to an indefinite amount...
...official estimate of cost of living (p. 138 of the last catalogue) the one item which does not figure in the lowest as well as the highest calculation is 'Societies and subscriptions to sports.' A student may join no society and contribute nothing to crews and teams. I have no means of judging how many are found in this category, but that most of them refrain reluctantly - as betraying either their poverty or want of sympathy with their fellows - I do not doubt. Upon those who do contribute to the sports, a variety of motives press with great force...