Word: conductivities
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Edward Everett Hale will conduct Chapel prayers during October...
...which should be noticed. First, we are sorry to be obliged to censure a Harvard player for indulging in a dispute with a player on the opposing team. This is a practice contrary to all Harvard traditions. It must not occur again. Next we feel compelled to notice the conduct of certain members of the visiting team. With utter disregard of all the rules of self-restraint which should govern a college ball player, these players badgered the umpire with such persistency that at last it became almost unbearable. For the sake of the reputation of college athletics, we hope...
...university of liberal arts and sciences should give a student three things: Freedom in choice of studies, opportunity to win academic distinction in single subjects or special lines of study, and a discipline which imposes upon each individual responsibility of forming his own habits and guiding his own conduct. In support of this position he cites the example of European universities, which received students as young on the average as the freshmen of American colleges, and which have had exceptional success by the adoption of the very theory which Pres. Eliot now so earnestly advocates. If a boy's school...
...resolution to entrust the conduct of such celebrations to the good sense of the students alone, passed the faculty by what was practically a unanimous vote. An approach to unanimity is not of very frequent occurrence when that body votes on matters of general policy, and in this case it proves how strong a desire now exists there to let the students govern themselves, wherever such government appears likely to succeed...
...should like to add one word on my individual account. What I personally wish we might see growing up here is a complete system of self-government by the students,-the faculty only regulating studies, and having nothing to do with conduct except in altogether unusual emergencies. If there could be but one crime, "behavior disgraceful to the college," and one punishment, expulsion, that would, it seems to me, be the ideal state of things. But it is obvious that such a consummation will have to be reached, if it ever is reached, step by step; and between...