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...hard to find any encouragement for the Honor System when examples of its failures continually crop up in the college press. The latest report is from the University of Illinois where a violation of the honor rules by three well known undergraduates did not meet with censure from the student body except in the form of an unsigned letter to the Daily Illini. The Illini printed the letter and in an editorial deplored the attitude of the undergraduates in not reporting the cases immediately to the honor commission...
...further Resolved: that this resolution be sent by telegraph to the President of the United States, the Secretary of State, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, and all Massachusetts congressmen; and that it be given the widest publicity in the press...
Interest in the Italian language and literature has been much quickened by the war, and to meet the increasing demand for new textbooks and new editions of modern Italian novels and plays, the University of Chicago Press is to issue shortly, the first volumes in a new series, "The University of Chicago Italian Series," which will be under the editorship of Ernest Hatch Wilkins (Harvard Ph.D. '10), a well-known authority on Italian literature...
There is nothing more unprofitable than to criticise a letter sent to the public press. However, the letter from Mr. Paul McK. Palmer which recently appeared in your columns seems to demand an answer on account of its character. I would not take the trouble to point out its many obvious errors were it not for two things...
...decision rendered by men whose business it is to make continually unbiased decisions in far weightier matters than were here involved. Unfortunately Mr. Palmer's letter has not been confined to University circles where perhaps it would be laughed at and understood. It has been copied in the public press, in one instance under the caption "Unfair to Washington." Governor McCall, Judge De Courey and Dean Albers have had too much experience probably to give the matter more than a passing thought but the fact remains that a student in the University publicly has made an atrocious attack upon them...