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Foiled in this, as he had been in an attempt to have the editors expelled, he seems to have cast about for some other means of upholding his course, for the best of the students in whom his actions have stirred hostility were the ones he would crush by expelling them from the university...
...Another attempt has been made to blow up the unoffending beech tree between Weld and Matthews...
There evidently is some reason why the beech tree should be removed, as a second attempt has been made to blow it up. As its presence does not injure the appearance of the grounds, we cannot see why it should not be allowed to remain. If there is any just reason for its removal, those who wish it would do well to petition and state their reasons. If it is merely on the ground of animosity toward the authorities that such action is taken, the sooner those who are concerned in this boyish trick are discovered, the better...
...disadvantages of the method of strict regulations and supervision imposed upon students at Yale, he says: "No efficient seat of learning can, with any endowment which any American college now possesses or hopes to possess, undertake anything approaching to parental care of the students. . . . The result [of ceasing to attempt this] will be greater care in the selection of boys for college education. It will cease to be a matter of course to send boys to college whenever the father can afford it. Boys who have no strong love of study, and whose self-control is defective, will...
...attempt has been made to boycott a druggist in Oberlin, Ohio, for selling liquor. Yesterday the freshman class of the college called upon him, but were unable to effect a reform...