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...Massachusetts, thirtyeight, or 72 per cent, were certainly college bred. Morton, the dentist, and Allen, the judge, must have had the equivalent of a college education in learning their profession. Where Bradford, Carver and Endicott were educated does not appear. Of the thirty-eight, Harvard claims twenty-five, viz., Bancroft, Prescott, Motley, Parkman, Emerson. Holmes, Lowell, Hunt, Channing, Brooks, Pickering. J. and J. Q. Adams, Dane, Quincy, Sumner, Parsons, Shaw, Story, Everett, Phillips, Devens, Bartlett, Peirce, and Bulfinch; Bowdoin has three - Hawthorne, Longfellow, and Andrew; Dartmouth two - Webster and Choate; Yale two - Edwards and Morse; Brown two - Mann and Howe...
...special meeting of the Class of '93, Haverford College, held in Philadelphia on May 21, 1894, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted, viz...
...which has met with almost universal approval, and by the four year time limit, the advisability of which is by no means so certain. But in the present instance the Athletic Committee has cut down this vested right from no such fundamental necessity. It has established an arbitrary class, viz., academic undergraduates, and declared that all captains of what are still called university organizations shall be drawn from it. This class is based mainly on the personal opinion of advisability that the committee entertains, and has not the excuse of practical necessity which the rules for eligibility had. In view...
...used in common parliamentary practice with their classification and order of precedence, the motions having the highest order of precedence in a deliberative body being placed at the top of the book; and descending in regular consecutive order will be found those having the next highest order of precedence, viz.- privileged questions, incidental questions, subsidiary motions and the main question-thus can be seen without turning a page, and in a moments time, whether a motion is in order. Between each marginal reference will be found in a condensed form all the rules relating to that particular question...
...suggestion that Holmes Field be flooded has been heard many times by the writer; is there any sufficient reason why the suggestion should not be acted upon? Two reasons why it has not been done in the past have been quoted, viz., fear of injury to the grass and to the cinder track. If it is possible for harm to be done to either of these by ice, the conditions which usually prevail on Holmes Field during the winter are the worst possible and the addition of six inches of water, enough to cover the field, would dimiinish rather than...