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...supported the affirmative, and Mr. L. B. Stedman, '87, and F. B. Taylor, C. S., the negative. It was claimed by the leading disputants, on the one side, that this change would facilitate communication between the executive and legislative, that the power of the committees would be broken, that less pressure would be brought to bear on the president to influence legislation corruptly, that continuity of legislation would be ensured and that a more progressive policy could be maintained by the executive. The disputants on the other side claimed that the legislative department was the chief and the executive...
...aggregate attendance at the colleges this year, is reported to be less than it has been for years...
...Howard, '85, 8 inches; S. Cary, '86, 8 inches; T. C. Bachelder, L. S., 8 inches; C. H. Atkinson. '85, scratch. The event was won by Cary, who cleared 6 ft., 7 1-2 in. Atkinson cleared 7 ft., 1 3 4 in., which is 2 inches less than what he made last year when he broke the record for this event...
Class lives have always been a bugbear to busy seniors, but somehow or other this year there seems to have been less difficulty in writing them experienced by the present seniors than by their predecessors. Whether it is a proper pride in doing class work or the energy of the genial class secretary which has effected this, we do not know, but certain it is that a large proportion of the lives, very much larger than usual, have already been written and handed in. Some are still not done, and as the secretary wishes to have a complete...
...total to $6745. This last item of overdue bills is an extraordinary one to be sure, but must be met, unless we are to keep always in debt, a state of things which no one would desire to see. The average for Yale crews is, we still think, less than ours. We have learned from a careful examination that the figures given for the Yale crew were also too large, and their report seemed to indicate that there were double entries, which would make Yale's expenses for 1883 84, somewhere near those of the Harvard crew, perhaps less. Moreover...