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Again from this campaign we learn that the people cannot be appealed to on intricate questions of political economy. They must have a definite point to decide on or two men to choose between, and then their decision or their choice can be relied on. We must therefore throw the power and with it the responsibility on one man; with our frequent elections there is no danger in this. We must have leaders in the legislative bodies, and the heads of departments are the proper persons for such leaders. Our State governments should have all officers dependent on the governor...
...Brown faculty has refused to adopt the athletic regulations. The Brunonian remarks: "SO far as we have been able to learn, the faculty rejected the resolutions on the ground that while certain restrictions in regard to "professionals" were needed, the provisions of the restrictions for not fairly meet the demands of the case. We cannot see the necessity of placing such restructions-prohibitory in some cases-upon the athletic sports of a large number of colleges, simply for the purpose of helping forward the reformation of certain collegiate foot-ball players who are in the habit of kicking each other...
...every novel that a girl can safely put into the hands of her mother, so it is not every proposition that is an axiom to the experienced undergraduate which is intuitively apprehended by a green and gray professor. It is exasperating to be told that you must not learn athletics of an athlete, and that the faculty is liable to recommend to you, as an instructor in that department, a most worthy Christian gentleman, a friend of one of the trustees, whose health has broken down under the cares of a country parish. Still, this result would, we think...
...look at the buildings. He said he should, and then inquired for President Chamberlin, and remarked that he had a check in his pocket for the college. He was told that he was in Europe. Prof. Packard said he paid attention to the stranger, being particularly desirous to learn more about the check, "and I got it into my house...
...were consulted before the faculty took any action. Such should have been the case here. That it was not so leads us to believe that the measure was forced through the faculty meeting without giving the members of that body a sufficient chance for discussion or any chance to learn what the students, graduates and others interested in Harvard had to say upon the subject. This savors too much of political wire-pulling and gag law methods, and hardly reflects credit on those having the matter directly in charge before and at the meeting. Therefore, for these reasons...