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...personal friendships and enmities in picking out his men. He might retain, influenced by friendship, an average man, on the ground that he would fill the position as well as need be, and thus look over, or set aside a man who would fill the post better. This conduct discourages and disgusts many hard-working men from trying for positions, and they cease to train. While an average man may do as good as need be, that is no reason why an abler and better man should not have a fair trial; moreover a man must do better than...
...remember also that what may be amusing to any of them at one table may be annoying to those who happen to be sitting within hearing distance. To be sure, nothing very serious has happened as yet, but, if any license is allowed for bovish pranks and undignified conduct, there is no limit to which this abuse may not extend. It would be a pity for visitors in the gallery to witness anything unbecoming the conduct of gentlement in the strictest sense...
...young men who were recognized as college students were arrested in Trenton, N. J., for disorderly and obnoxious conduct. They permitted it to be understood that they were from Pirnceton, but on a Princeton man appearing it was discovered that they were from Yale, and had wandered quite a distance beyond their Alma Mater's tender care, and got into trouble thereby...
Nopenel can doubt that such a tendency to wards generous giving by the wealthy to endow educational institusions is most excellent. Among a democratic people like the Americans such conduct will always meet with particular approbation. It is nevertheless often to be regretted that such gifts do not fall upon a better selected objected often doubts their entire disinterestedness. Opinions may differ whether in an economic sense such institutions is the Vanderbilt University, in Tennesee, are the best means of applying a liberal endowment for education. In the continual multiplying of new foundations there must be in one sense...
...Alexander McKenzie will conduct weekday morning prayers during February...