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...report of some decision so mutilated as to seem arbitrary, and out of the proper sphere of a college government, a very bitter feeling is produced, old troubles are raked up, and new stories get into circulation, so that often a very small fire kindles a great deal of matter...
...referee, and the provision whereby every boat leaves its water at its own pier, so that washing is done away with. The practical nullification of the action of the convention in favor of coxswains, by the proposition of Yale to allow colleges a free choice in the matter, we regret extremely, particularly as the deciding vote of the presiding officer seems to us, by giving two votes to one college, to have been unfair. Harvard, on general principles, was opposed to the admission of new colleges, but special considerations in favor of Union induced her to change her vote...
...should consider this latter matter carefully, and feel it our duty, individually, to help to correct all tendency in the opposite direction. Any bitterness of feeling between classes of college men is perfectly unnecessary, we think, as the wrong acts of individual men should not be visited upon their colleges. If collegiate regattas are to breed hatred and coin hard names, they had better be discontinued; but we sincerely hope for such manly, straightforward legislation, in the next convention of colleges, that the difficulties of the past may be cancelled, and those of the future prevented...
...often lost their proper weight by ill-advised expression. Before inquiring into this particular case, we must indicate, with all due respect to the Faculty, one cause which, we conceive, has produced by far the larger number of misunderstandings between Faculty and students. The decisions of our instructors in matters which concern us most nearly are never distinctly, and in terms, made known to the mass of the students, but are spread by rumor in such a mutilated form as to create the grossest misconceptions. To prove this, one need only turn to the College journals, and notice the columns...
That harmony between instructors and instructed which we had hoped was to be the watchword of the future, can never be realized until both do all in their power to remove the causes of misunderstanding. In regard to the present matter, the feeling of the students seems in brief to be this: These decisions, if adhered to, will in the end destroy the existence of two hitherto considered very respectable and characteristic Harvard institutions, and much cripple the energies of a third, besides preventing the friends of the students from meeting them in a way agreeable and advantageous to both...