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Such cutting is excessive. The Council feels that it is too serious a neglect of College duties, and that the attendance this year should be greatly improved...
...they take money. By the ingenious device of fradulent letting of contracts, lucrative jobs are given to political retainers at unnecessary cost to the city. Laws requiring competitive bidding are easily circumvented. The purchase and sale of public franchises without regard to the interest of the city, and the neglect of public hygiene by incompetent Boards of Health, with a consequent high death rate and the taxes it makes necessary, complete the list of city evils, whose causes we shall now enumerate...
Today the Seniors take up the time-honored custom of wearing caps and gowns. It is an honor that no Senior can afford to neglect through false modesty or laziness; but should be welcomed as an enviable privilege and a means to better unity in the last weeks of an eventful undergraduate career...
...therefore excluded from these fields. Simple assignments must be covered by members of the board during the examination periods, when no candidates are at work. They must attend board meetings at intervals to discuss questions of policy, and must sign in the office every day, subject to fine for neglect to do so. The same penalty is imposed for failure to cover assignments and for absence from board meetings...
Personally, I must acknowledge that I am more partial to the major sports; but this lack of fair play is what brings forth my protest. Is the man who runs on the track every day during the winter supposed to do his college work conscientiously, while the basketball player neglects his? Such a supposition is ob- viously absurd. Either both athletes will study, or both will not do any work. If one has to give up his athletics while the other keeps on exercising, the result would be that he who had no incentive to keep off probation would...