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...attempt has been made to boycott a druggist in Oberlin, Ohio, for selling liquor. Yesterday the freshman class of the college called upon him, but were unable to effect a reform...
...body, or indulge in such innocent amusements. It is an old, and I might say time-honored custom. Perhaps no class at present in the college, except '85, has omitted to "disgrace" itself in this way, nor any other class of recent years. Why '85 should attempt a reform in this particular I don't see, unless it is that they may show what dear, gentle, studious, good little boys they are. Even though it may be a sacrifice of some dignity to go to the theatre in a body, that does not settle the question that it is disgraceful...
...North American Review for February will contain an article by President White of Cornell, on civil service reform...
About five hundred names have been signed to the civil service reform petition recently circulated at Yale...
...resolutions and reports, et cetera? No, indeed! On the contrary they tamely submit; they leave Memorial in abject fear, and deliver over its fair precincts into the hands of the tyrants? This is the reward of our efforts. After all my letters to the papers calling for justice and reform in such eloquent and powerful language, after all your own laborious reports and editorials and statistics, we see only this result. And again, what have I accomplished in all these years by my efforts to secure steam heating in the dormitories and more lamps in the yard, and other changes...