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Below we give a transcript of part of an address given by George Walton Green, Harvard '76, of New York, at the Pennsylvania dinner in New York last week. In a letter to the CRIMSON Mr. Green writes: "Those of us here who are deeply concerned for the future of football feel that the only chance of saving the game lies in the recognition of the facts on which I tried to lay stress - that we must encourage better public opinion in college life on the evils that must be eradicated." Mr. Green's remarks on football follows...
...Putnam is very highly spoken of by all who have had any chance to estimate his abilities. President Eliot is reported to have declared him one of the best three librarians in the United States, and from Minneapolis the testimony in his favor is especially favorable. The Boston Transcript in commenting editorially upon his appointment, says: "Everything seems to indicate that the new librarian has books in his blood, so to speak, and also the executive ability which is needed by the head of a great library like ours. Mr. Putnam's record in connection with the Minneapolis library points...
...Public sentiment is opposed to it. (a) It is hasty. - (1) Not adequately considered in committee. - (2) Rushed through to show that the party can enact constructive legislation: Transcript, Dec. 17. - (b) Only one banker out of 50 who wrote to Hon. Wm. Springer approves it: Herald, Dec. 18. - (c) It is a weak and impolitic scheme. - (1) Tends to make depreciated paper redundant. - (2) Revives "wildcat" state banks. - (3) Divorces the government and bankings - (d) Several substitutes are offered. - (1) Eckels's plan. - (2) Baltimore plan. - (3) Senate Bill. - (4) Walker's Bill. - (e) Leading papers utterly opposed...
...literature. The request of Judge Holmes that any persons having letters of Dr. Holmes will send them as loans to Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, or to A. P. Watt, Esq., Hastings House, Norfolk street Strand, London, will undoubtedly bring out some delightful letters to American and English correspondents. - Boston Transcript...
Fifty-eight deaths have occurred since June, 1891, among them Drs. Oliver Wendell Holmes, George C. Shattuck, David H. Storer and Henry I. Bowditch. - [Boston Transcript...