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...year. If the fiscal year begins with the academic year, these difficulties may be removed. There are at present two fees; by the proposed change there would be but one fee for all persons. Again, if the fiscal year begins in October, the membership will be not only more certain and calculable, but probably larger. The inducement to join the society is strongest at the beginning of the academic year, since a large number of purchases are made at that time. In February, under the existing system, men are apt not to join, because there is no immediate prospect...
...lowest limits, but has never been eradicated. Just the moment repression has ceased the brutal custom has sprung up with new features of brutality. While I do not favor threats to repress disorders or pledges iron cadets as a means of eradicating violations of the regulations. I am certain that the best means of maintaining discipline in any organization is the certainty of summary punishment, just, but severe, in all cases of intentional offense. West Point, it will be remembered is the happy institution, for which two of its professors, who last year went on a tour of the colleges...
...eleven are to compare in this respect to Yale's team, for the typical Yale man thinks nothing that he can do for the eleven is too great if it can only turn success in their favor. Whatever may be the issuer of Saturday's game it is certain that our men are to meet an eleven with which it is a pleasure to play and from which they are to receive nothing but the fairest and most gentlemanly treatment. The heartiest good wishes of with the team on this trip and a joyous welcome will await them if they...
...society were too fond of practical jokes and were too often getting into scrapes to please the more quiet townsfolk. Once when the engine had been newly repaired, the students decided to try its power on an old house which was to be set on fire at a certain time. But the alarm was given too soon and many of the town's people endeavored to save the building. The company, however determined that it should burn, dragged the engine to a pond near by and threw the dirty water upon the citizens in such quantities that they were glad...
...mention in connection with the subject treated in the above editorial that one of the instructors in history at Harvard has entered into correspondence with a professor at Johns Hopkins, endeavoring to make arrangements for co-operation in the work of certain similar classes under each instructor in the writing of theses and the investigation of certain historical topics. It is hoped that by interchanging the results of investigations on both sides more valuable results can be arrived at than otherwise would be the case...