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This or a similar programme, covering not longer than two days, would give the members of the graduating class time to entertain their guests more fittingly and to enjoy the exercises themselves as they have not been able to do for several years. It would heighten the enjoyment of a very large majority of the guests and inconvenience very few. Those visitors who live in the neighborhood of Boston could as easily come to Cambridge two days as one if they cared to attend both days. To those who come from a distance one day more or less would make...
That these objections are well taken in many ways, it will be evident to all, and it also seems as if plans similar to those suggested above might help to remedy the difficulties. The extension of the exercises over two or three days would at the same time relieve the pressure on Class Day and also give more chance for the class to entertain as a whole...
...regular Dante prize will not be offered this year, but in its place is offered a similar prize under different conditions. This prize is in Memoriam of Mr. C. S. Latham who was awarded the Dante prize in 1889-90. Mr. Latham died before the award was announced and his mother now desires to again offer for competition the prize adjudged to him. The competition will not only be open, as Dante prizes have been, to Harvard undergraduates and Harvard graduates of not more than three years' standing, but also to students and graduates of similar standing of any college...
...very choice edition of Victor Hugo, gilt tops. One hundred photogravures, bound in three-quarter extra morocco binding, only $1.00 per month. Also the complete works of Bulwer, Dickens, Dumas, Waverly, Eliot, Thackeray, Irving, Emerson, Holmes, Lowell Hawthorne, Longfellow and Whittier bound in the same elegant style on similar easy terms. Also a magnificent set of the "Arabian Nights," unexpurgated, very rare. Also Scribner's Sabine edition of Engene Field. 10 vol. $15.00. $1.50 per mo. Also all the Standard Dictionaries and Encyclopedias on easy monthly payments...
...consider that there has been at Yale any abuse in this direction, nor do I regard the admitted possibility of abuse as other than a very remote one, and I should consider any action taken at Yale similar to that of the Advisory Board at Harvard as illadvised and unfortunate...