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...students do not care to have their morning slumbers interrupted, others wish to be able to reduce their attendance at Cambridge to a minimum. It is advanced in support of retaining the prayers, that they are the only provision in the college for express religious instruction, and the only mode in which it can be obtained, except in the classes of the Divinity School. Moreover, the service is held in "a well warmed chapel," and its duration is from 10 to 14 minutes. In view of the present state of circumstances, the committee give it as their belief that...
Taxation for encouraging trade may be right, but is a tariff the best mode of imposing such taxation? Protective tariffs are to give certain profits to a certain class of producers, to compensate for certain losses. Now, as a rule, no tax is levied by Congress without giving the definite amount and purpose; but the matter of tariffs is an exception. Taxes levied for aiding manufacture are mixed up with other government expenses. Yet the people have a right to know all the particulars of taxation, "how much and what for." All national expenditures and taxes should be purely open...
...publish to-day an article on the "Amherst Senate," written by one of its members at our request. It is our purpose to publish from time to time authoritative accounts of the rise, the mode of operation, and the success of the attempts at co-operative government which have been tried at several colleges, and to compare the various systems with the plan of a conference committee which is shortly to come up before our faculty. The Amherst Senate, inasmuch as it is the oldest and best known of student governing bodies, first deserves our attention. Much has been written...
That, when they commence senior sophisters, they shall have the further addition of buttons and frogs to the cuff of their coat, and shall also have black gowns with a wide sleeve, -the mode to be determined by the corporation...
...freshman game with Harvard. This time it is on the score of expense. The management was afraid that enough money would not be taken at the gate to defray the expenses of the game and so of course the game had to be given up. In this straightforward, manly mode of procedure, Yale is not to be blamed. Oh, no. She simply followed the rule which always prevails in such circumstances. Thousands of such instances might be given. For years it has been the custom for Harvard or Yale or any other college, if any doubt was felt in regard...