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...days ago we expatiated with pardonable pride upon the influence which our editorials of last year exerted upon the Board of Overseers in leading them to adopt English as the language of the Quin-quennial Catalogue instead of the semi-barbarous Latin which has been used heretofore. For a year, we inferred, the overseers had been screwing their courage to the sticking point, and it has at last stuck. But now. alas, comes the surprising intelligence that their recent resolution has been changed, the catalogue is to be printed in the language which for many years has puzzled our forefathers...
...second half year of the Technology began yesterday. Then a vacation of over a week in duration is given after the close of their semi-annual examinations...
...progress from rigidity to flexibility ? The time comes in a democracy when the people are completely masters, and do not value restrictions. The tendency to rigidity will therefore stop, and a larger authority be given the executive. A rigid constitution is an absolute necessity in a federation ; but a semi-international compact of England and her colonies had better be effected by a British Statute. The benefits of a flexible constitution, a more developed common law, temperate habits of compromise, etc., are shared only by the small ruling class ; thus the new voters in England, though teachable, will be ignorant...
During the semi-annuals, when the attendance is necessarily somewhat irregular, both squads of the H. A. A. work together in the gymnasium...
Again we feel it necessary to deny the semi-annual statement of the Yale News concerning the large number of editors with which our paper is carried on. This time the New Haven oracle puts it at twenty-five, where as the real number is twelve, not including the three business editors. From time to time the News manufactures such items for its readers, pointing proudly to its own board of eleven, the publication of which, by the way, serves to help fill up the editorial column every issue. We do not make any claims to rival our Yale contemporary...