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...holds; and the functions which he discharges towards his constituents and his party." The relations of a member toward his constituents, the executive government, and his party were briefly but exhaustively discussed in all their various phases. The question frequently asked whether a member ought to act as a mere delegate in the expression of the views which he knows to be held by the majority of his constituents, or whether he should regard the House of Commons as composed of the quintessence of the statesmanship and brains of the nation, and in this way better able to judge...
...Sargent, the director of the gymnasium, another member of the committee, says that warning players under the present rules is a mere farce, for the referee's attention is often distracted, sometimes purposely, by a team's umpire, and then a player may entirely disable another and be warned only once for it. Again there are so many men engaged that individuals may be warned here and there and the play of a team not affected at all. Allowing three warnings, as under the present rules, is as though in sparring three blows under the belt were allowed before disqualification...
...rules quoted as showing the brutality of the game as now played are in a sense mere forms. The same rules may be seen in base-ball. No one would say that base-ball was brutal because there are rules that forbid intentionally knocking a man down or intentionally striking him. Surely the latter rule indirectly implies more brutality than the ones so much objected to by the committee. It seems to us that the committee objects more to the letter of the rules, the possibilities they suggest, than to their spirit. But after all we object most strenuously...
...himself would be discouraged under such circumstances. Let the officers and members of this society be loyal to their church and earnest in their endeavor to make the society a power in the university, and not a low another preacher to be disheartened by coming here to find a mere handful of men to meet...
...papers and make them more entertaining than at present. If those not on the editorial boards would only turn their attention to doing something to aid the experions of the editors, there would be less necessity for filling up vacant columns with what to the majority seems mere trash, be it essays, orations or local items of blind import and little interest, though to editors, hard pressed for time and copy, it may seem acceptable reading matter. [Badger...