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...faculty have indefinitely suspended two Dartmouth editors of the senior class, Ladd, managing editor, and Lovell. Objections were made to the language and sentiments of a communication by Lovell in the last issue criticising the faculty's action in refusing to extend the time for handing in prize essays, and also to editorials by Ladd, one calling attention to the communication and indorsing it, and another characterizing the marking system, compulsory attendance at religious exercises and the closing of the reading-room on Sunday as absurd features not by any means peculiar to Dartmouth, and advocating the formation...
...action of the academic council in offering such liberal terms for the award of these fellowships is but a step in the march of progress which the well-wishers of Harvard desire to see, and will be accompanied with admirable results in increasing the claims of Harvard as the leading university of the country...
...given at the time, that perhaps the gentleman was excited, or perhaps even "rattled," but we see no reason why in a game between the freshman nines of the same two colleges, this same university played should endeavor to coach the freshman nine. There is no rule prohibiting such action, but we think it shows decidedly bad taste...
...faculty's address to the students, which we print in another column, is by far the most satisfactory action that body has taken this year. It is almost always the case that any disagreement between faculty and students is largely owing to a misunderstanding of each other's position. Such a statement as this last on the part of the faculty cannot fail to have a good effect, as it shows that their position is a just one. The main body of the students are no less anxious than the faculty that the good name of the college be preserved...
...which have just been printed bear the following remarkable legend : "The members are requested to meet in their rooms this evening." What a strange sight it will be when the society holds its first meeting under the new regime, each man meeting in his own room. What unity of action ! What harmony in debate ! What ease in obtaining a quorum ! It may be, however, that with admirable foresight the enterprising officers have arranged a system of the telephones so that although each man meets in his own room, there may be yet some connecting link to bind them...