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...enthusiasm displayed in the freshman boating meeting is deserving the highest approbation of the college at large. In years gone by we have seen Columbia and Harvard freshmen contesting for honor on the Thames, and it has often been a question for speculation when our freshmen should be represented as aspirants for like aquatic honors. * * * The thanks of the college are due to the class for inaugurating a custom that undoubtedly will be of the utmost advantage to our university boating interests as adding experience to men while in their freshmen year and then giving the university boat its quota...
Harvard Union Debate. Sever 11, 7.30 p.m. Question: "Resolved: That the Preservation of Constitutional Government requires the immediate repeal of the Hoar Presidential Succession...
...next Harvard Union debate will take place April 15th. The question is "Resolved, That the Preservation of Constitutional Government requires the Immediate Repeal of the Hoar Presidential Succession Bill." The principal disputants are, affirmative, P. L. Sternbergh, '87, R. B. Mahany, '88; negative, F. E. E. Hamilton, '87, Russell Duane...
...here, if to "revival" we must give the common newspaper meaning. Still on the part of many members of the college greater interest in matters of a religious character has been awakened, and with it has come a desire to give religious subjects a fair and candid consideration. The question of religion is a question that every man must decide for himself. Indifference to it, as to the important questions of the day, is inconsistent with the requirements of a liberal education. That Harvard is waking from this indifference, which so many of those who have never been in Cambridge...
...school question enters politics, it will most probably be in the shape of a proposal to divide the fund collected for public instruction so as to support parochial schools. To grant a part of the public money to one denomination would entitle all denominations to a share. And sects like the Episcopal church, which talks of building schools of its own, would accept this. But the plan would be greatly to the detriment of the common school system...