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DURING the somewhat heated discussions of college polities which were rife at the time of the Senior Class elections, it was frequently urged that certain measures were objectionable because they were not democratic. This appeared to be considered by many as a final argument. The moment that any plan was...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE POLITICS. | 1/14/1876 | See Source »

A body of men, varying in numbers between one hundred and fifty and two hundred, enter college together. For the most part they are strangers to each other, and the vast differences in antecedents, in habits, in tastes, and in character which cannot but be found among them, prevent them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE POLITICS. | 1/14/1876 | See Source »

The college societies are limited in numbers, and their constitutions are such that an election to any one of them is a decided honor, - is a certificate of the possession of certain qualities which tend to fit a man for a prominent position. The members of these societies are elected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE POLITICS. | 1/14/1876 | See Source »

IT is said that many of our wise and enlightened legislators, in Congress assembled, cherish in secret a belief that the government of the United States has only to print on a piece of paper the magic sentence, "This is a dollar," to make that hitherto useless paper as valuable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CHAPLAINCY. | 12/24/1875 | See Source »

Again, I think that the duties of such an office should be performed by some one for whose experience and character a class can have more reverence than is possible towards a person whom we do not know, or, at most, know only in the varied scenes of college life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CHAPLAINCY. | 12/24/1875 | See Source »

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