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Princeton College appears to be in a tumult. The students have held a mass meeting, have addressed the trustees and have put forth a circular letter. Unfortunately for them their troubles do not seem to be confined to the athletic resolves. Widespread espionage, exercised throughout the college and town, and an arduous system of examinations, recently introduced, figure quite as prominently as athletics. However much we felt oppressed by the premature and hasty interference of the faculty in athletics, we have never been, and do not expect to be, harassed by any prying inquiries into our private affairs by that...
...yesterday's faculty meeting, the petitions recently drawn up by the students and the resolutions passed at the mass meeting of last Monday, were duly considered and acted upon. After carefully noting the objections to the new regulations, as set forth by the undergraduates, the faculty passed the following resolution...
...section who answers "not prepared" will not be called upon again during the remainder of the year. He also says that hereafter a certain mark will be given for work done in recitation. It is but a few weeks since a like pronunciamento was put forth by another and older instructor in the same department. This seems to us an entirely wrong principle to work on and a highly obnoxious one. To deprive a man of all chance of obtaining a certain mark for his study because he may have once been deficient seems unjust...
...resolved to reject them as a whole, at the same time instructing a sub-committee, to prepare a statement of the reasons for such rejection. This sub-committee consisted of doctors S. Weir Mitchell and J. W. White, and of Samuel Powel, Jr. They have printed a circular setting forth their views upon and objections to the different resolutions...
...resolutions recently passed have this tendency? We think not, and in order to show wherein they fail, we shall first consider them separately, and then set forth their effect on the various athletic sports in college...