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...excitement has broken out at Yale over the choice of the junior editors of the Lit, who have been elected by the class but are not acceptable to the senior editors. The class has been asked to reconsider its action but refuses to do so, claiming that it has elected men who represent the best literary ability of the class. As both sides appear firm it is doubtful how the affair will...
...their lives the best that can be done for them in four years in the way of a liberal education." Such should be and has been the education that Harvard has to offer. Whether or not in the future it will become an advanced high school depends upon the action of its faculty. Mr. Arnold's remars upon Oxford form a fitting close to this article. "We, in Oxford, brought up amidst the beauty and sweetness of that beautiful place, have not failed to seize one truth,-the truth that beauty and sweetness are essential characters of a complete human...
...therefore with pleasure offer our apology to this committee for our hasty characterization of its action. That its motives and course of action have been fully explained cannot but be a cause of satisfaction to all who have watched that course with anxious interest for the past few months...
...actuated by sincere motives as expressed in Prof. Norton's letter in prohibiting the Yale game, and that no official assurance has been given the nine of permission to employ a professional trainer in the contingency named, although individual members of the committee may be in favor of such action in that case...
...that these two views are wholly irreconcilable; that between them is a chasm which affords no tenable middle ground; that the students are unwisely stubborn in support of their own ideas; and that this obstinacy will, sooner or later; drive the strong arm of authority to attain, by harsh action, what might have been effected by timely concession and compromise...