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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...noticed that there is a waiting list of over 600 for the hall, that the places of those who leave the hall on account of poor fare will be filled from this list, and that there is thus no prospect of a decrease in membership. It is true that less than fifty have left the hall since October first, but that is because good board in Cambridge is expensive, and does not show that the management of the hall can not be improved...
...third scheme is to rush for flowers around four trees back of University. This would be virtually four scrimmages similar to Plan One but with less than one hundred men in each. It would do away with excessive pressure, maneuvering for positions, and limited seats. The objections to this plan are: (1) it would do away with the old tree; (2) it would make the beautiful space behind University unsightly...
...mistaken for an intercollegiate contest between Harvard and Columbia. The Columbia Union, which is the only debating organization of importance at that university, will practically represent its entire debating strength; and it will be strange if the speakers for the Forum are not mentioned to a greater or less extent as representatives of Harvard. If the Forum wins, all will be well; but if it should lose, the debating interests of the University may be hurt at a critical time in their history...
...purchase of books by Mrs. Harriet Jackson Morse of Boston in memory of Mrs. Sarah Alden Ripley. A new scholarship, just founded, bears the name of the president, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz. The Massachusetts Society of Colonial Dames also offers for the first time a prize of not less than fifty, nor more than one hundred, dollars for the best essay of sufficient merit on some subject connected with the Colonial History of New England...
...system of cuts" has been tried in the freshman class and will probably be adopted for all classes in the future. According to this system no absence of longer than a week is allowed except for sickness or some circumstance of equal urgency. No absence at all of less than a week is excused, "it being considered that any illness of shorter duration is not of sufficient consequence to warrant absence from the class room...