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...only one-fourth of the Freshman class have signified their intention of attending the Class Dinner on April 1. It is absolutely necessary that at least four hundred come to the dinner to make it a success, and the Dinner Committee must know beforehand how many will attend. Tickets at $2 each will be on sale at the Rendenvous until 5 o'clock tomorrow. No tuxedos will be worn as it will be purely informal...
...dominant profession of Harvard graduates until 1880, when business took the lead. At Yale the ministry competed successfully with law until after the middle of the nineteenth century, when law took the ascendancy and kept it until 1895, being then displaced by business. At the University of Pennsylvania one-fourth of the graduates used to go into the ministry; now about one-fiftieth do so. Oberlin College, founded with strong denominational tendencies, shows the same story of the decline in numbers of men going into the ministry. At the University of Michigan, out of an army of over...
There are no "rich men's colleges." At Harvard, whose "Gold Coast" is much and sometimes maliciously advertised, we believe that considerably more than one-fourth, and we have heard it put as between one-fourth and one-half, of the students are dependent upon their own exertions or on scholarships or both for their support in whole or in part...
...results of this movement toward direct popular government have been important and good. The employee can now collect fair damages from his employer; in civil procedure the defendant must now convince one-fourth of the jury that he is innocent; judicial decisions cannot be reversed for trivial errors; railroads are kept in control by the club of the initiative and referendum; state officers are made to do their duties by the recall, stationed as a guard over them; a larger percentage of intelligent voters has come forward to run the government with wisdom; experts are planning and arguing...
...Sophomore entertainment committee at a meeting yesterday decided to hold a series of four dinners during the year. One-fourth of the class will be invited to each of these dinners by the committee in charge, the first will be held in Trophy Room of the Union on the evening of January 18. In order to insure their success, each man should try to come when he in invited. The committee will endeavor to secure some outside speaker on each occasion, and there will be informal speeches by members of the class...