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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spring theatricals of the Hasty Pudding Club occur this evening, at 8.30 P.M., in the society building on Holmes field. Present and past members are cordially invited...
...exultant classmen. The presence of the army of proctors and their redoubtable general was the only thing needed to add zest to the whole affair. It was doubtless the failure of his part of the programme which caused the early breaking up of the demonstration; for by half-past nine only the glowing embers of the fire remains, and an occasional lone tute of a fish horn was the only sound to break the silence...
...Phelps, who has just been appointed Minister to England, has, for the past two years, delivered lectures on law to the graduating class at Yale...
...senate is not supposed to create business for itself; and like the nation whose happiness it is to have no annals, Amherst has been singularly free from all disturbing questions for some years past. Only one case of discipline has occurred during the existence of the senate; the question of athletics or no athletics was settled soon after the body's organization; and in fact the senators have done but little more at their stated meetings than to pass congratulations with the president on the prevailing harmony of the college. This accounts in a large degree for the embryo state...
...happens, the real strength of the senate remains for the future to test; and the longer a general quiescence delays this, the more Amherst is to be congratulated. The past has proved, however, that the senate is entirely practicable; the judgments, while few, have not been made hastily, nor to the detriment of the college; the senate has not proved more lenient than the faculty; the latter have been entirely satisfied with its workings; and the growing popularity of the plan at Amherst and at other colleges is a good omen for the success and an increase in the powers...