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...Bonaparte has long taken an active part in the Reform movement, and is a members of the Executive Committee of the National League. He has moreover a wide-spread reputation as a speaker...
...Andrew D. White of Cornell, the Harvard Union shows commendable activity. Addresses by such successful speakers and prominent men as Col. Higginson and Dr. White will not only be of great interest and value to a student audience, but will help to strengthen and make more lasting the already wide-spread and genuine interest in public speaking at Harvard...
...source of much congratulation to the University that the registration list for 1896-97 shows a material increase. That the University-in spite of the wide-spread financial distress, in spite of the great political crisis now confronting the country, has gone on calmly and steadily growing, is indeed encouraging. It seems to point to a time in the near future when the annual increase will be much larger...
This gives but the slightest summary of the important official positions which Judge Hoar has held. His reputation has been wide-spread and the whole country has been awaiting with anxious interest the outcome of his illness. He leaves a family of three sons and two daughters, of whom the sons have attained considerable prominence in the law. The eldest, Samuel Hoar, is a Fellow of the Corporation of Harvard, which position his father had held as well. Judge Hoar had also been a member of the Board of Overseers. His connection with Harvard as a graduate from both College...
There is a sentiment, wide-spread among both past and present members of the University, that the existing system of awarding scholarships is not satisfactory. An effort will be made next year to inquire more diligently into the needs of applicants, and this reform is plainly right. Far more important reforms are, however, needed. The system, as it is established, is on the whole well executed; sober complaint is made not against the execution of the system but rather against the system itself...