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...then their decision or their choice can be relied on. We must therefore throw the power and with it the responsibility on one man; with our frequent elections there is no danger in this. We must have leaders in the legislative bodies, and the heads of departments are the proper persons for such leaders. Our State governments should have all officers dependent on the governor so that he is responsible for the whole policy...
...your yesterday's editorial, you allude to the wire-pulling methods of the faculty. That phrase, I think, is the proper one with which to characterize their present action in regard to the petition from the executive officers of our different athletic associations, which is now before them. The faculty earnestly wish that this petition should not be made public. For, say they, we will lose all hopes of coercing Yale, if it should be made public. Is not Yale entitled to the knowledge of the true state of feeling at Harvard? How then shall we characterize the action...
...safe and proper restriction on athletic sports is to be found in the requirements of the classroom. At Yale we get along well with our young men by allowing them to guide their own affairs, only insisting that they attend regularly to their college work, be obedient to authority, and keep good order. We are so well pleased with the arrangement and the resulting good feeling between instructors and pupils, that we do not propose to disturb our own peace or annoy our students by hasty and uncalled-for legislation, even if by our refusal to adopt such legislation...
...frequently said that athletic sports in a college are the best safeguard it can posses against disorder among the students. In the good time coming, when college athletics shall have been reduced to a perfunctory basis and shall have become as proper as the most ardent disciplinarian could wish, it may be found necessary to devise a substitute for them as a preventive of disorder. In the opening words of a recent editorial the Oberlin Review furnishes us a hint which immediately suggests such a substitute. "A few years since," says the Review, "the president of a neight, the guest...
...some breach of faith on the part of some one at Brown University or else this private matter would not have appeared in the papers. It seems a pity that people cannot restrain there impatience to tell but must "let the ca out of the bag" long before the proper time...