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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...each one to be as prompt as possible, so that others may not be kept in suspense. By the power conferred on them the smaller colleges can make the larger ones wait their pleasure, but it is hardly polite or politic in them to do so. It is not often that the larger colleges are called upon to ask favors of them, while on their side they are largely dependant on the larger institutions of learning for many of the ideas and methods of instruction and government which they pursue...
...point in the society's history has it been found necessary to levy an assessment. The stability and usefulness of the society as a college institution is now well assured. The society has been run on a close financial basis, as is the safer plan, and therefore has often been hampered by lack of capital with which to conduct its operations. It has always, however, been able to profit by the courtesy of affiliated tradesmen, and thus has not seriously suffered from this cause. It would be much better if it had a small capital of its own, however...
...then, too, the question may be asked, more often perhaps than is agreeable to the Alumnus, who fondly believed that its fame was world-wide. "Where is Dartmouth College?" While everybody knows the location of Harvard and Yale, few persons out of the State of New Hampshire can say where Dartmouth is. And even in New Hampshire itself, there are people who would be at a loss to direct the stranger how to reach it. In going from New York or Boston the passenger by the train alights at a shabby little station called Norwich. He is in the State...
Surely when President Eliot's name is seen so often in the reports of the Civil Service Reform meetings and dinners, and not his only, but many of the overseers and of some of the faculty, it would seem that these gentlemen would be interested in doing something at home; and that if they really cared for the matter they would exercise some of their private influence, if not their public, where it might do so much good...
...action of the Memorial Hall directors in creating a committee which shall keep the student better informed of the working of the hall is a good move. The complaint that has been so often made that the system in yogue there is one whose workings are dark and beyond the comprehension of ordinary mortals will now be hushed. With everything made clear, there is no reason why the hall should not prosper even more than before. The idea of improving the lunches will meet with approval from all the boarders. Hitherto the lunches have been considered the weakest part...