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...cries, "to speak the plain, unvarnished truth, is a body content without a soul, without a sense of responsibility, for the simple reason that the individual is lost in the multitude. It is impossible to obtain from an aggregation of twenty or thirty men anything like uniformity of action. The whole is broken up into groups or cliques which do not act in concert, and according as one or the other of such cliques may be present on a given occasion, the voting will be decided one way or the other...
...HERALD was quite justified, it now appears, in instancing the example of the Princeton faculty as one which our own faculty would do well to follow in abolishing the more objectionable features of the anti-professional rules. The report that the Princeton faculty had taken this action was first made on the authority of the New York papers. One of these soon contradicted the report as premature, but now it is stated that the faculty has taken action in the matter by temporarily suspending the rule against playing professionals, which is as far as its power extends, and by proposing...
...action of the Columbia lacrosse team in forfeiting the game to have been played here yesterday leaves our association in a most embarrassing condition. It had counted on the receipts of this game to pay the team's expenses to Princeton; but by the more than tardy announcement from Columbia, it not only gets no gate money, but is in debt for advertising, posting, etc. To forfeit the game with Princeton is not to be thought of; it would put us in the uneeviable position in which Columbia now is. It is therefore absolutely necessary to raise by subscription...
...matter of church attendance on Sunday, it seems to me that the same principle would govern my action. Whatever influence in religious matters parents would seek to exercise over children after the latter have left the paternal roof should, in my opinion, be by precept and example only; certainly by no further attempt at control...
...Quincy, however, declines to pledge himself to any definite course of action in case of his election...