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JUNIOR.[The above communication was received too late for us to take any action. We heartily approve of the project, and we would recommend it to the attention of the Finance Club, one of whose objects is, avowedly, a discussion of political questions...
...differ from the Advocate on the action of the base-ball convention in allowing a college nine, some of whose men are professionals, to play for an amateur championship, and insist that it is establishing a bad precedent. In all intercollegiate contests it is always understood that only amateurs can compete, and the absence of the professional element in base ball heretofore should have warned these men that, by becoming members of a professional club, they ceased to be amateurs, and disfranchised themselves, so to speak. In other words, a long standing precedent becomes in effect a law. These facts...
...action of an instructor in history in remitting the second of two theses which had been given out as prescribed work at the beginning of the year, is worthy of imitation. This attempt to cram men like Strasburg geese has become a serious matter. More than a fixed amount of work, especially in history, cannot be done without neglect of other courses, and extra work, if forced upon those who take the elective, is performed at the expense of the regular and more important part of the year's study in that department. Thesis-writing compels neglect of the topics...
...public interest. We have proved in the first two that gentlemen can equal, if not excel, those who turn pastime into a profession; and there is no reason why the same excellence should not be attained in every other branch of sport. Thus it is that we regret the action of the base-ball managers, this year, in consenting to play with another college nine, some of whose men are professionals. It establishes a precedent which, if followed up, will inevitably tend to lower the tone of all college organizations, and subject them to slurs similar to those cast...
...citizen of the State to which he had removed. But that is no reason why a non-resident candidate chosen by electors from different States should not be eligible. In the second place, if the cases had been similar, there are many reasons why the precedent set by the action of six years ago should be disregarded. A committee of eminent lawyers decided against the election then, and a committee of equally eminent lawyers decide in favor of it now. There must be good reasons for violating a precedent when lawyers think it advisable to do so. And the reason...