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...Glee Club last night J. A. Carpenter '97, was elected president, vice H. W. Howe '97, resigned. The club will continue work whether the Faculty allow a trip this year or not. The subject is now before the Faculty, however, and it is hoped that they will rescind their action of last year...
...effort which we sincerely hope will be successful is again being made to have the Faculty rescind the vote which put an end to the Christmas trip of the musical clubs. In that vote we believe the Faculty made one of its few real mistakes...
...following vote was also concurred in: To rescind so much of the standing vote of Dec. 18, 1871, on the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Science as relates to the minimum residence for these degrees. The question of extending the right of voting for Overseers to graduates of the Lawrence Scientific School, the Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Divinity School, and to the holders of the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Science, was considered, and was decided in the negative...
...deciding not to rescind their vote of June 11, by which the traveling of the University musical and dramatic clubs was closely restricted to the vicinity of Boston, the Faculty have taken a position which will be greatly deplored by many graduates and undergraduates of Harvard. While we doubt strongly the wisdom of this action, it is not at all hard to judge the considerations upon which it was based. The Christmas and Easter tours were apparently considered harmful in two respects: First, in the impression they gave to the public of college life; and secondly, in their effect upon...
...meeting of the Faculty yesterday afternoon it was voted in reply to a petition from the Glee Club not to rescind the vote of June 11. "That hereafter musical and dramatic performances by students be not allowed, except in places to which and from which the students can travel in one day." It is understood that this vote excludes New York, and all other places distant more than about two hours travel. This puts an end, for this year at least, to the Glee Club trip and to the Hasty Pudding theatricals in New York...