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...system of self-government by college students is not altogether a new and untried experiment in the history of education. Whether the frequenters at the Academy at Athens in classic times were held under the strict sway of a model "paternal" government, of the most approved American pattern, or whether they thrived upon elective courses in conduct, as well as in studies (see Professor Clapp in the last Nation, who believes election in one necessarily implies election in the other) is a question perhaps beyond our powers to determine. Young America, alas, did not exist in those days...
...theory our system is good - as here practised it is a partial failure. The executive power is vested in the usual officers, from president down to marshal. The legislative power is vested in a senate composed of twenty-one members. Every legislative act requires the signature of the regent to become a law. The judicial power is vested in a court presided over by a chief justice and two associates. There are also meetings of the general assembly. It reflects rather severely on this system, that if all the officers, save the marshal, the prosecuting attorney and the justices, were...
...movement, though some doubts are expressed as to its success. That cooperation has been successful in many instances in this country is an undoubted fact, but to succeed requires careful management. As some one has said, only a philanthropist ought to manage a cooperative store. The application of the system to a community of college students is certainly novel and, as far as we can learn, unprecedented, and our sister colleges will look upon our undertaking with the greatest interest. Harvard thus occupies the important position in having taken the initiative, adapting this attempt in economic finance to the peculiar...
...George E. Waring has planned a new system of drainage for the Yale College grounds which will free the dormitories from bad air. [World...
President Barnard of Columbia lately spoke in disparaging terms of the proposed school at Athens. This moves the Times to ire and irony. It says: "Why should our young men go to Athens to study Greek? Is not American Greek good enough for Americans? The American system produces Hellenists like the Yale professors of Greek, who, going down to the Peiraens one day to make a bargain with a native waterman for a sail-boat to take him across the harbor, astonished the man by asking him for a 'transport-boat,' - something that would carry half a dozen regiments...