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...graduates, especially as the communication of "Graduate," who evidently has the athletic welfare of his alma mater at heart, was only a mild criticism and suggestion. Such criticisms can do no harm, and very often do much good, and certainly do not call for such a spiteful and childish retort...
...fresh?" It is not a vital fault. Why suppress him? It is not always the blase or the brainless however that bray: "What an ass!" Many a man while secretly admiring independence and push, joins in with the popular chorus against the offender. Few undergraduates have any idea how childish and inane this spirit of repression appears to men outside of the college...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: If my communication in regard to the library was almost "too childish to notice," why did you use nearly a column of your valuable editorial space in trying to answer it? In justice to myself I may say that I have never had other than the very pleasantest relations with the library authorities, and I do not remember having incurred this year any of the penalties to which I object. The Malden and the Boston Public Libraries inflict fines of only two cents a day, and each has to deal with a much larger and more troublesome...
...reason why we give as much space and comment on the writer's "childish complaints" was to deter others from making like ones rashly. We see nothing new in this communication to make us alter our opinions expressed in yesterday's issue...
...other. This fact, however, is not sufficient to justify us in expecting the library authorities to revoke a rule which experience has proved to be necessary. As to the complaints about the heaviness of the fines, and the rigidity of the rules concerning reserved books, they are almost too childish to deserve notice. Long experience has shown our librarians what limitations and punishments are necessary for the best good of all who use the library. The correspondent complains because a person is fined ten cents for every day he keeps out a book beyond the allotted time; he thinks...