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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...term there were as many as seventy men who were unable to obtain seats, and at the present time there are between twenty and thirty who are obliged to wait for seats to be vacated by others before being able to take their meals. It is, of course, obvious that it is very desirable for the association to raise its membership to as large a number as possible; for each additional member who comes to the hall now increases the expense of the association by a small fraction only of what he contributes to its support. It has been suggested...
...rooms, we do not see that the objection to the plan is a forcible one. In the first place, the old system has not been entirely satisfactory, for when a poor student draws an expensive room, and a wealthy student a cheap one, the advantage of an exchange is obvious. The new plan is adopted to meet just such needs. Under its provisions a student cannot transfer a room to a friend, nor can he take rooms which he does not want for the sake of an investment. Moreover, the new plan has one great advantage over...
...most decidedly dissents, and maintains, on the other hand, that there is no legal prohibition to prevent any graduate, in whatever State he claims a home, from becoming an Overseer. Furthermore, that since, of the thirty Overseers, some twenty live within sight of the State House in Boston, the obvious tendency of the Board in future is to the character of a close corporation, whereas it was clearly the design of the Act of 1865 to withdraw the College entirely from connection with the State and from local opinion...
...training, besides the members of the University Crew, conclusively proves that we have not yet lost all interest in rowing, and also shows that class crews arouse a much more active competition than the old club system ever did or could. The reason for this is obvious, and, apart from the raising of our standard in rowing itself, we ought to congratulate ourselves that any scheme for reviving class feeling has been put on a substantial footing. The old club system tended to make the class feelings till less, and yet developed no club feeling to take its place...
Illustrations might be multiplied ad infinitum, but they are obvious to every one interested in the subject. The present system leads directly to the selection of "soft electives," and favorite instructors known as "easy markers," - a royal road indeed to high college rank...