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...rebuke implied in the following sentence from Senator Hoar's oration on Garfield, is without doubt sometimes deserved: "Beyond all," Mr. Hoar says, "Dr. Hopkins taught his pupils that lesson in which some of our colleges so sadly fail - reverence for the Republican life of which they were to form a part, and for the great history of whose glory they were inheritors...
...bank, which it is proposed to form in Paris to resuscitate the Union Generale, will have a nominal capital of f.50...
...that my only connection with the government has been as a member of the senate, and in that capacity I have cast an opposition vote. In other words, I am an opponent of the students' government. Not that I oppose such institutions in general, but that the present form, as it exists here, has to my mind a few very disagreeable features which lack compensation...
During the last week of last term the General Assembly resigned all powers of government and returned them to the regent and faculty. They refused to acknowledge the action of the assembly, the regent deciding it unconstitutional, upon technical grounds. And so the government still exists, - a hollow form supported by the officers of the university. A recent announcement of the president, calling a special meeting of the General Assembly, failed to bring together a quorum...
Still, as I have said, the failure is but partial. I believe that a system of self-government by the students can be formed which will be popular, effective and broad enough in its scope to escape the odium which has become attached to our form...