Word: member
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...which are going on among us, but of which certainly few undergraduates have any knowledge. Professors Gray, Whitney, Gibbs, Lovering, Cooke, Shaler, Trowbridge, and Jackson are all at work in their several departments making scientific researches, and writing up the results they have obtained. Motley has been elected a member of the French Academy; Professor Newcomb, a graduate of our Scientific School, has received honors from four foreign societies; while Dr. Gould, another astronomer, has been elected a member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg...
Before closing, I cannot refrain from noticing one or two points in my opponent's article. His analogy between college societies and masonic lodges, considered politically, is extremely pretty, but it will not bear examination. Harvard societies are confined to certain classes in our own college; and every member must be a class voter; while the masonic fraternity extends all over the civilized world, and embraces citizens and non-citizens of every country in Christendom...
...ought not to expect to have more than one Class Day, and for a member of one of the lower classes to give a spread on that day, especially if it interferes in any way with a Senior's arrangements, would seem to be an infringement on the peculiar rights which the graduating class has by the courtesy of the other classes and of the College authorities. This courtesy has been so universal, that an exception appears very marked...
Something might be done by altering the limits which divide the territories of the various clubs, but this would after all be but a superficial remedy. It is true that, since the Hollis fire, the Holyoke constituency is more than three times that of Holworthy; but to transfer members from one club to the other would not radically improve the condition of the clubs as a whole. This should certainly be done, but the reform should be carried further. The boats, with the possible exception of the sixes and fours, should be thrown into one common stock; the four separate...
...CLUB - MEMBER...