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...editorial is a criticism of the recent votes of the Overseer. It agrees with Mr. Walcott's views in regard to all the proposed measures except the roll call. This it condemns as wrong in principle, degrading to the moral tone of the University in results, and unnecessary...
...utmost capacity last night by men in all departments of the University who were desirous of hearing from a member of the Board of Overseers their true idea of the good which would come to the University from the recent regulations passed by the board. Mr. Roger Walcott, a member of the Board of Overseers, gave, in an informal way, the reasons which had prompted the board to take its recent action. Mr. Walcott's views were far from radical, it was plain that his audience was in sympathy with him in the stand which he took in regard...
...regret very much that we are not allowed to published a detailed report of Mr. Walcott's liberal, candid, and straightforward explanation of the reasons of the Board of Overseers in making the recent recommendations. The students owe him a debt of gratitude for the way in which he made plain that in almost every respect the votes of the Overseers are not hostile to the broadest, highest, and most progressive aim of Harvard, but that they will serve to establish on a firmer basis the present policy of college government...
...students have been in great ignorance in regard to the meaning of the recommendations, and every one who heard Mr. Walcott last evening, although many cannot conscientiously agree with the vote in regard to reporting in the morning, must feel grateful for the clear and kindly explanation which cannot fail to remove in a great measure the objections of undergradates to the policy of the Overseers...
...recommendations of the Board of Overseers has been the subject of much discussion in the University during the last two weeks, the prevailing sentiment among the students being very much against them. This evening at the College Conference meeting, Mr. Roger Walcott, who is a member of the Board of Overseers and who was very active in preparing and carrying through the recent recommendations, will address the members of the University on the vote of the Board...