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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...petition is now before the Massachusetts Legislature asking that power be granted to the trustees of Wellesley College to confer degrees. It is claimed that this power is necessary to place the college on an equal footing with similar ones. Dr. Clark, in favoring the petition, said "that it was the intention of the trustees that no graduate should receive a degree unless having attained the highest standard of any college in the land...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT OTHER COLLEGES. | 1/26/1877 | See Source »

...needs at present some one to put life into it. We are sorry to hear that the captain of at least one club is anxious to perpetuate the plan of making the six-oared crews inferior to the four-oared. This was done last fall from necessity, but we said then, and we say now, that it is a backward step, - not to be considered a moment by those who have any desire to see our boating interests improved. Men who have such a desire should devote themselves to devising means to raise the first crews of the clubs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/26/1877 | See Source »

...down by members of the class of '76, and, consequently, will never be seen by the Club. A careful statement of the financial condition of the boat-club will be found in the article called "Graduates and Boating," and it is as well that a word should be said to undergraduates on the subject while the graduates are being called upon. Among the other affairs of our University in a grievous state, may be reckoned a certain laxity about money-matters. The man who subscribes five dollars to help the crew, the nine, or what not, intends, in ninety-nine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/26/1877 | See Source »

Although, as I have said, people in this part of the world usually talk shop, and nothing else, there are a few bright exceptions to this rule, - there are a few who have made it their business to get hold of a good deal of general information, and who are sensible enough to keep it to themselves when it is not asked for. And this blessed few, when they find themselves in a company where shop must perforce be talked, are willing to talk your shop instead of their own. To mention names would be invidious, but I think that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERS TO A FRESHMAN. | 1/12/1877 | See Source »

...candidates working this week have been: Harriman, Legate, and LeMoyne, '77; LeMoyne, Littauer, and Loring, '78; Brigham, Conlan, Crocker, Weston, and Schwartz, '79. Harding, '78, has given up trying for the crew. Smith, '79, has not yet returned. Jacobs, '79, it is said, has once more made up his mind to try for the crew, but has not appeared at the boat-house this term...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CREW. | 1/12/1877 | See Source »

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