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About thirty men attended the meeting in Boylston Hall which Mr. Bradford called to order at 7.30. A letter was read from Prof. Palmer notifying the committee that the first meeting of the conference will be held on Thursday, Feb. 19, at 4 P. M., in Sever 21. The subject for discussion will be, "The usefulness of such conferences in the future and the best means of choosing the student delegates." The meeting then proceeded to elect four delegates, and the following men received the highest number of votes and were declared the choice of the class: Carpenter, Goodale...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.-We wish to express our sympathy for yesterday's letter-writer; that ingenuous youth, who "cannot conceal his embarrassment when he hears his own blunders laughed at." We suppose the poor fellow cannot keep back the scalding drops that rise unbidden to his eyes each time the instructor dares to say his English is faulty. Poor fellow, we sympathize with you. We, too, have had pet themes sat upon, but we didn't have sense enough to make public our feelings on such occasions. Seriously, if the subject was so painful a one, why did the gentleman...
Fifty men attended the '86 meeting last evening. President Barnes read the following letter, which is self-explanatory...
...better of him, and a revelation following of the personal objections which caused the black-balling of Messrs. Greener and Terrell. In the mean time the friends of Mr. Terrll are not acting as if they dreaded any such revelation. Mr. C. W. Stone of Boston has written a letter to the Advertiser upholding Mr. Terrell's character in the strongest and instancing in proof his position in the class of '84 in college. "The suggestion that he would have been blackballed if he had been white," says Mr. Stone, "is just silly. If that club in Washington does...
Says Mr. John E. Todd, in a letter recently printed in the New York Times: "The chief objection to the elective system adopted some time ago at Harvard, and more recently at Yale, is that its tendency is to produce specialists instead of men of broad culture and liberal ideas. Deliver us from men who know but one thing. The man who knows but one thing. The man who knows but one thing does not know that, for he does not know it in its relation to other things. What a college ought to give is a liberal education, preparatory...