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...Tarbell made some interesting statements relative to the origin and growth of the school, which in purport were as follows...
...letter from R. H. Davis, president of the Union Club, was then read by the secretary. The purport of the letter was that the Free Wool Club would be considered one of the Union Clubs and therefore held to the usual yearly assessment. After some discussion, it was ascertained that the Free Wool Club had never officially assented to a proposition to belong to the Union Club." And a motion was made by one of the members "that the Free Wool Club does not consider itself bound to pay any assessment to the Union Club, for the reason that...
...exasperating to think that this article can go forth to other colleges and to the public in general and purport to be Harvard sentiment. The writer would suggest that the college assume a Dictatorship over this publication...
...History of the Law of Businest Corporations before 1800," and Mr. Austin Abbott's paper on "Indians and the Law." Mr. Wiliiston's essay, which was begun in the October number. was written for the prize offered last year by the Harvard Law School Association. While the main purport of the essay is to treat of the development of the law of corporations, the more popular aspect of these institutions as shown in their external history and in their influence in the commercial world of England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is not neglected. The essay is, therefore, interesting...
...which perpetually appears in that weekly publication, the University Calendar, the front seats in Appleton Chapel are always (?) reserved on Sunday evenings for students alone until 7.30, at which hour all vacant seats will be filled by the surplus Cambridge people. How many complaints have been made, whereof the purport is that on Sunday evening last there was a great rush from the high-ways and byways of this classic town to Appleton Chapel, where Dr. Brooks was to preach-that even before the hour specified all the seats except a very few near the front were filled-mainly with...