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...cannot control their legitimate action as jurymen...
...president, by one of the members, or by any student or body of students, and it is then their duty to investigate the case with reasonable promptness, obtaining their information by whatever honorable means may appear most desirable. They may consult with the president, but he cannot control their action. Having formed an opinion, they decide upon a verdict of fact, which must be agreed to by a majority, and which state the grade of the offense, together with such aggravating or extenuating circumstances as have been allowed to qualify this verdict...
...blame. Attention is called to this bad bubit of game of the men among us again, and again, but apparently to was little purpose for the evil temporariy checked, soon increases to its old proportions. Cannot the thoughtless who are guilty of this annoyance keep in mind that their action disconcerts the reader or lecturer, and draws away the attention of the audience? A constant stream of men coming late often mars the first fifteen or twenty minutes of these public meetings in Sever 11, for the hard floors and wooden chairs of that lecture room do not permit...
...that it is inexpedient to grant the request of the petitioners. This decision of the overseers, though not wholly unexpected, is yet a most disappointing one to those who have been prominent in getting up the petition, and by the students as a body the news of the overseers' action will be received with regret. We have done, however, all that lay in our power to bring about the much-to-be-desired change in the patriarchal system of college government which has so long prevailed at Harvard. Nothing now remains for us to do but to fold our hands...
...there was one action which the overseers took of which every student will approve, and that was the appointment of Dr. Royce to an assistant professorship of Philosophy. Never was promotion more merited. Dr. Royce not only conducted most acceptably the courses in philosophy which last year fell to his lot through the absence of one of the professors of that department,- and this is no mean praise when we consider that it was Professor Palmer's place which he filled,- but also, since he has had charge of the forensice, he has done more to raise the standard...