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...order to prevent its perusal during prayer time, the St. Paul's Society has forbidden the delivery of the Echo at Memorial before 14 minutes...
...should be allowed. The courts left vacant each season should be drawn for by lot under the direction of a committee elected by the tennis players from among themselves, this committee arbitrating in cases of dispute. This would, we think, be the fairest way for all concerned, and would prevent the unmannerly scramble to get on the ground first, which will surely result from the want of some systematic method of disposing of the courts...
...whole College is seething with excitement, and every outlet of every building is barricaded and guarded to prevent the fearful loss of life that must inevitably follow any collision between the adherents of the rival societies...
...this spirit is carried farther, and all books bearing on a certain subject, in which there is to be an examination, are removed by the instructor from the Library a day or two before that examination, there is a manifest blunder committed. The removal of the books will not prevent the students from getting others like them elsewhere, if they wish to, and the only effect brought about will be trouble and inconvenience to those who would have used the books, - an effect which can afford no satisfaction to the instructor, and exasperates the student...
...fail to add to the excellence of the debates in the present society. The cordial cooperation and encouragement of the President of the Union and others, who opposed the scheme of the Legislature as a branch of the Union, but warmly advocate it as an independent society, would entirely prevent the action of those who now make this proposition in your paper from being misconstrued into an attempt to damage the Union...