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...with sincere regret that we learn that Professor Gurney has resigned the position of Dean of the College Faculty; and we feel sure that we express the sentiments of all undergraduates when we offer him our thanks for the impartial and efficient manner in which he has fulfilled the duties of his difficult office...
When the same vandal influence which assailed religion in the case or the chaplainship is seen to be at work to undermine social feeling by attacking its expression, one may well wish that his lot had been cast in that golden age (problematical, to be sure, even in Homer's time) when a warrior raised with ease a stone that in after times was to require the strength of four of the fast degenerating species...
...need of further prompting. That action may, however, be of use in showing them that public opinion would not be so violently opposed to such an improvement as is generally thought. At any rate, I do not think that we need fear what outsiders will think, if we are sure that we are doing what is right, and take proper care to let our reasons be known...
...success of Class Day, nor do all contribute equally to that success, so that it is but fair that those men should be chosen for the more important places to whom the success of the arrangements is of the greatest importance. If petty jealousies are subdued, we may be sure that the "Reform Act of '76," as some one called it, will long be remembered as making an honorable change in the history of College politics...
...such an election, with an eye single to class interests, nothing has been gained to Class Day itself. If an open election recommends itself to any particular element in the class, as the means simply of securing to itself the lion's share of the offices, we may be sure that Senior classes, in one college at least, are yet too far from that general manliness and keener sense of honor which are essential to the best working of a perfectly open election. We certainly hope to see each of the different class elements voting, as we are informed...