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...This vote meets with the most cordial approval of the faculty, and President Seelye expressed himself highly gratified that the sophomore class of Amherst College should take the initiatory step toward a reform in the old and barbarous custom of hazing freshmen. The president considers the action as an outcome of the present system of government practised there, and thinks that the other colleges will follow the precedent established by the class...
...which has always carried the greatest weight with me is the closer life into which students are brought by a college in an isolated situation. Young men act and re-act upon each other. They stimulate each other. They relentlessly pursue, and they most effectually rub off eccentricities of action and of character. They exercise great moral influence upon each other. If a high standard of morals exists on the part of leaders, great benefit results to all others. The four years spent at college are an important epoch in the life of a student. Impressions are made to which...
...daily practice and that they should respond readily to the call for subscriptions. The victory of the crew last June has inspired every foot-ball man with a most earnest desire to repeat the success on the field this fall, and this purpose is very evident from every action of the candidates who have thus far put in an appearance...
...Brown made the following remarks in his last annual address, in reference to collegiate games, societies, etc. "The multiplication of students' clubs, associations and societies, that call for intercollegiate games, or for annual meetings and reunions during term time, has now reached a point where some kind of restrictive action would seem to be called for. The number of absences required by these games and annual reunions is more than is consistent with the best results of scholarship. The weeks allotted to actual work in the present academic year of the colleges are too few to warrant the ever-recurring...
...voted, That the faculty see no satisfactory reason for selecting speakers except from such as are candidates for a degree, and that in making selections, as all the candidates cannot speak, in their opinion the most practicable method is according to the principles stated in their action of February 26, namely, that appointments be given according to the student's record of general scholarship, her literary ability and her conduct during her college course...