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...vote of one body, and a refusal to concur by another are extremely perplexing. It is gratifying to learn that the students are not alone in their perplexity, for the board of overseers has appointed a committee to find out what its legitimate powers are. If this inquiry should lead to the adoption of a written constitution, which would serve as a substitute for the unwritten usages and theories, the system of government of the university would be greatly simplified, and there would be no danger of such controversies which have shaken other institutions to the very foundations...
...second nine has been formed of Memorial Hall waiters styled the "Lead Heels." They played the first nine yesterday...
...seniors. Between seventy and eighty of the graduating class have gained the opportunity or privilege of preparing parts, but of these only an extremely small number care to avail themselves of the chance thus offered them. It would seem that the honor of delivering a commencement part would lead nearly all the rank list men to make a trial, but such is not the case. As yet, we believe, scarcely more than a dozen men have handed in their subjects for parts. It is obvious that the more parts the instructors have to choose from, the better will...
...seniors. Between seventy and eighty of the graduating class have gained the opportunity or privilege of preparing parts, but of these only an extremely small number care to avail themselves of the chance thus offered them. It would seem that the honor of delivering a commencement part would lead nearly all the rank list men to make a trial, but such is not the case. As yet, we believe, scarcely more than a dozen men have handed in their subjects for parts. It is obvious that the more parts the instructors have to choose from, the better will...
Under the circumstances the task set is a hard one. To lead, as gently as is consistent with firmness, the mistaken elders along a path which is difficult to their unaccustomed feet, to repeat again and again with kind insistence the doctrines which are so easy to the more enlightened mind, never forgetting that consideration which is due to a blood relation,-this is a duty calling into play all the self-assurance and confident superiority which even a careful training of four years can bestow...