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Then, too, the United States government has not always observed the various clauses of its treaties. The promises of the government to give comfortable houses to the Indians have not been observed in one case out of five. When we think of these things, and remember that the Sioux are a people who in years gone by were wont to roam from Kansas to Canada, and from the Mississippi to the Rocky Mountains, can we wonder at their restlessness? By the recent action of Congress in depriving this tribe of half their land, 11,000,000 acres, this restlessness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Indian Question. | 2/13/1891 | See Source »

...give "A's" because they consider their "B's" just as high as the "A's" which other instructors give-to these men, we say, such instructors are unjust. We recognize plainly enough the difficulty of making a set and equal standard in all the courses, but we think that those instructors who publicly announce that their standards are different from the majority, should make an effort towards a system more nearly like the average...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/12/1891 | See Source »

...many men, such differnces of standard signify nothing; but when insturctors, by such methods, calmly decide the fate of the scholarship men, they have a heavier responsibility on their shoulders than they think. The natural result of this evil is to drive men from the courses in which the instuctors announce they will not give the highest marks. Such an effect tends toward the destruction of the benefits of the whole elective system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/12/1891 | See Source »

...course if it could be shown that the three year course was in every other way desirable, the threatened discomfort of defeat in athletics would be a light consideration. We merely wish to point out a difficulty in the way of the proposed reduction, which has, we think, received too little attention at the hands of the advocates of the three year course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/6/1891 | See Source »

...Vesper Service at Appleton Chapel yesterday was very largely attended, and many of those present seemed to think that it was the best one given so far this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vesper Service. | 2/6/1891 | See Source »