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...Surbridge, '89, closed for the negative. Even on an estate it will not do to have laborers and tenants hostile to the owner. The whole system must be in accord. Men of bad moral character should never be retained, even if efficient. The so-called convict appointees of Cleveland should be replaced by Republicans, even if they can do their work. The civil service rules should be extended so as to cover all the offices. Under this system no questions are asked about political beliefs. If the present incumbents can pass the examinations, and are men of honor, integrity...
...very few, every man, according to his associations and individual taste, will fill out a different hundred. For instance,- Prof. Norton said,- a gentleman in England of the richest acquirements and the ripest and widest culture had recently sent to him his own "hundred best." Twenty, Prof. Norton had never heard of; he had never opened but twenty nor read largely except in seven of the hundred. This was a signify ant fact...
...Negroes and Indians, pupils of the Hampton school, spoke, last evening in Shepard Memorial Chapel. Perry, one of the Shawnee tribe, spoke in favor of giving the Indian a chance to civilize himself. The Indian remains in barbarism because, shut away from the world in reservations, he has never had any opportunities for improvement...
...some spot more congenial than the precincts of the University. We wish to repeat to all who leave Cambridge, whether they go to feast with their families or to search for a foot-ball game, the warning that has come from official sources; namely, that although the students have never been strictly limited to a holiday of twenty-four hours only at this season of the year, the practice of extending the vacation to several days must not be carried too far. The faculty has intimated this fall that those who remain away from Cambridge for more than three days...
...Shurtleff presided. President Dwight was received with great applause and in his address praised the work of the university in the past and spoke of the future prospects and plans. After the conclusion of Pres. Dwight's address, Senator Davis arose and said: "Our alma mater was never so strong, never so full of vigor, although in her two hundredth year, as she is today. The older she grows the younger she is. She has come to what she is, because she is a growth and not a creation. She has grown to it. She is like a tree that...