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...satisfied, and we may congratulate Seventy-six that her offices will be filled gracefully and well. An element is poorly represented when an unfit man obtains an office, and not because the office is not filled from its own number. It is this very conception that we wish to destroy, and it raises its head just when we had thought it exterminated. The proper class feeling, which alone should be apparent in this matter, knows nothing of elements or societies, but only aims to preserve the reputation of the class, and secure the ablest and best for the class offices...
...death of the last member of that class. Later, men undertook to write out their own lives, but, not knowing what to put down, they often ran off into stories of college scrapes and nonsense, that the sober sense of ten years later impelled them to cut out and destroy. After this, Mr. Sibley, to whom we really owe the reform and building up of this practice, undertook, in the year 1849, to see every man in each graduating class, and request him to write out a biography under his direction. In 1856, when he accepted the position of Librarian...
...watchword of the future, can never be realized until both do all in their power to remove the causes of misunderstanding. In regard to the present matter, the feeling of the students seems in brief to be this: These decisions, if adhered to, will in the end destroy the existence of two hitherto considered very respectable and characteristic Harvard institutions, and much cripple the energies of a third, besides preventing the friends of the students from meeting them in a way agreeable and advantageous to both parties. That this will be the result we firmly believe. The experience...
...fellow-students at Bowdoin have of late attracted a considerable share of public attention by proceedings which were, to say the least, extremely impolitic, and of necessity utterly unproductive of any result. If the refractory classes had intended to destroy all chance of their wishes being acceded to, they could not have contrived a more sure method than the extreme course which they have taken. The Faculty, after what has happened, cannot recede an inch consistently with the dignity of their position, and have absolutely no choice but to assert their authority. Even were it possible, would it be advisable...
...urged that it perpetuates the memory of the late war, and thus tends to foster a certain spirit of hostility between two large sections of the country. Do not histories perpetuate the memory of the war to a still greater extent? Why not burn them up? Why not destroy all the records of the war, for the same reason? This principle, if carried to its natural result, demands their destruction...