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During the Christmas recess the Modern Language Association of America will hold a convention in Cambridge. A large number of delegates have been expected and the committee of arrangements are at a loss, how to maintain them in this great city of Cambridge which boasts of not a single respectable hostelry. The management of Memorial Hall has helped them partially out of their quandary by offering to admit the delegates to the hall, allowing them to occupy the seats of those students who spend the holidays at home. Inasmuch as the inclemency of our New England climate at this time...
...society with subscriptions last winter, had a good opportunity to realize the truth of the often disputed saying that "Virtue is its own Reward." Checks to the amount of the subscriptions paid were sent to each subscriber, payable to bearer, and thus the society has proved its ability to maintain itself alone on its own merits without aid. We congratulate the management of the society on the success which has attended its efforts to place the society on a firm financial basis, and we think we express the sentiment of all under-graduates when we say that the business...
...proctors, it is as yet early to express a decided opinion. The duties of this official are threefold, to maintain order in the buildings, in the yard, and in the examination room. They are different degrees of a power which in a scheme of self-government, the student should exercise. The practical difficulties attending this change are such, however, that careful thought should dictate the policy to be pursued...
...action taken by the overseers in recommending that no degrees be here-after conferred save for merit only, is the direct outcome of the Butler debate of two years ago, and should meet with approval by every one who desires to maintain the dignity and meaning of the higher degrees. Every commencement time has become, under the habit of bestowing honorary degrees, a time not of recognizing merit and rewarding it, but an occasion for an undignified attempt to increase the influence of a college by giving men, eminent in other departments than in learning, titles which are properly...
...also resolved that the privileges extended to special students being readily subject to abuse the overseers recommend that these privileges be very sparingly granted that great care be taken in admitting special students to the various courses of the university, and that the several faculties use every effort to maintain a strict discipline, and to admit in this department any persons who show that they seek these advantages for the purpose of genuine study. The report of the committee on the relations of the faculty to the overseers was adopted, and Hon. Mr. Lowell was appointed a committee to express...