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...McCarter is president. The new Princetonian Board took charge of the paper with the issue of April 22, the first number of volume twelve. The paper will appear with a new heading before long. The New England Association held its annual banquet at the close of last term, and this banquet was a greater success than its predecessors. Dr. Bancroft was drawn from Andover, Prof. Tufts from Exeter and Prof. Gallager from Gildiston, and Dr. McCosh and others represented the faculty. The association is doing a good work, and seems likely to accomplish at least one of its objects...
...first attempts to regulate railroad rates were made by the so-called "granger legislation" in the Western States. This term is not very accurate, but it arose from the fact that it was the farmer element that used its influence to bring it about. The lowest rates were taken as a basis for the whole scale of transportation. The example which Illinois set in this matter was followed by other states as Wisconsin in 1884. The result was very disastrous, and foreign capital was no longer willing to invest in the railroads of those sections...
HARVARD NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY.On successive Wednesday evenings during term-time until about June 1, there will be given, under the auspices of this society, familiar talks upon the Massachusetts fauna. These talks deal with the haunts, habits, and peculiar forms of animals, thus furnishing a suitable introduction to shore and field collecting. They will be abundantly illustrated. They will be given in the Lawrence Scientific School building, west wing, room 4, and will be open only to members and graduates of the University. The subjects and speakers for the next four meetings are as follows...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: I should like to call attention to certain charges made against Williams at the meeting last term which admitted Columbia to the league with, Harvard, Yale and Princeton. These charges can now be shown to be unfounded; and as an unfavorable impression towards Williams was undoubtedly created by them in the minds of many who attended the meeting, it is only just that this impression should be effaced...
...vacancies to be filled on Commencement day, June 29, 1887, are five for the full term of six years, the place of Messrs E. E. Hale, E. R. Hoar, Morrill Wyman, Theodore Lyman and Francis C. Lowell, whose term of office expires on Commencement day. Messrs. Lyman and Lowell are eligible for re-election. Mr. Hoar declines to be a candidate for another term...