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...society have steadily worked for its improvement. Years ago they succeeded in making the branding at the initiation optional, and before Mr. Garrison's letter appeared that part of the initiation had been abolished altogether. The newspapers with their usual disregard for facts which spoil the sensational element in their news have failed to discover these facts and many others, and consequently have gone wide of the truth in much that they have said in this matter. The Overseers have seen fit practically to leave the work of reform in the hands which have begun it, and we believe they...
That the effect upon the moral condition of the college has been to deepen and animate the religious element in student life, to raise the standard of good couduct, to increase the power to resist temptations usually incident to large assemblages of young men, and to secure the general quiet and good order of the institution...
...rooms. It is an absolutely necessary rule and an entirely reasonable one. Yet already this fall eleven books have disappeared from the history library, eight or nine of them within the past few days. Some of these books may be merely borrowed; but even in that case the element of dishonesty in the act is only less in degree than if they have been stolen. The books are placed in the library as common property. The removal of any of them, and it is always the most important works that are taken, means that hundreds of men are robbed...
...secure greater unity. We hope that the foot ball dinner is not to be omitted this year. A slight change could be made advantageously, however; let the dinner be not simply in honor of the foot ball team, out of the crew also. That will bring the necessary element to furnish the enthusiasm of victory, and will give the public recognition of the glorious work of last year's crew which has not yet been made...
...gospel must have in it a permanent and unchanging element...