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...also embraces the names of deceased graduates of other divisions of the College who did not graduate in the Academical department, as follows: twenty-one of the Medical School (fourteen of this number having died within the last year), eight of the Law School (seven during the past year), two of the Scientific, and one of the Divinity School...
During the year William Freeman, the oldest living graduate, passed away, nearly ninety-six years of age, leaving the venerable Joseph Head, class of 1804, patriarch of the Alumni. There still remains at least one representative of every class since 1803, with the exception...
FIVE Overseers are to be elected to-day for the term of six years, to supply the places of the Class which goes out of office after the close of this Commencement Day. One Overseer is to be elected for the term of two years, to supply the place of Alexander Agassiz, resigned. All the foregoing are to be voted for on one ballot, in Massachusetts Hall. The polls will be kept open from the hour of ten in the forenoon to the hour of four in the afternoon...
...hoped that the rumor prevailing among the members of the Junior Class that next year the privilege of voluntary recitations is to be restricted to the Seniors is without foundation. One year is not sufficient to give the system a fair trial. It is not to be wondered at if this new freedom, when first granted to a class of young men who for two years have been strictly bound to the recitation-room, should, to some extent, be abused; but the next class to enjoy the privilege have been warned by the experience of their predecessors of the danger...
...Honorable Mention will not remedy this evil in most cases, - in such courses, for instance, as are not preceded by enough hours in the same branch to make up the required eight. And, even in cases where Honorable Mention is obtained, it is just to have faithful work in one special course rewarded. If a student takes, for example, Political Economy for the Senior year, his work in it is absolutely unnoticed and unrewarded. This is wholly wrong; it leaves the indolent without any hope of reward to stimulate them, and the hard-working without any notice of their industry...