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...enter college. This complaint was afterward amended, wherein the plaintiff alleged that he was excluded upon the ground of his refusal to take the obligation prescribed. The faculty based their defence on the claim that the board of trustees and the faculty had the right to enact and enforce rules, prohibiting the existence of Greek-letter societies in their college. The plaintiff claimed that the rule in question was one that was unreasonable, and could not be legally enforced, as its tendency was to abridge the freedom of thought and action of individuals. The decision of Judge Vinton was delivered...
That the board of trustees are clothed with the power to make all rules, by-laws, and regulations required or proper to conduct or manage Purdue University; if the board have the power, it is presumed that the faculty are acting by their authority; in addition to the powers exercised by the faculty under the authority of the board, they (the faculty) have certain inherent and necessary powers as teachers. They stand in many respects in loco parentis; the making of the rule in question, forbidding a student to hold active connection with a secret Greek college fraternity is within...
Some comment has been made by the members of English 6 in regard to a mid-year examination in that elective, as posted. There has never been any examination in this course, and we learn from Prof. Hill that in this instance it is not probable that the rule will be changed. No ingenuity has yet been able to invent a method of examination for a debating course, and the professor invites suggestions in regard to the matter...
...They can be used only on the date specified on their face." Are we to understand by this that a man who does not board at the hall shall be debarred from the privilege of taking his friends into the gallery at meal-time? Such strict application of the rule will certainly prove obnoxious to a large number of men who board outside the hall, but still retain enough interest in it to wish to visit the place occasionally with their friends...
...relic of the days of Roman rule...