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...doubt there are some who think that taking an informal vote for President is a departure from the sphere of the student to that of the politician, and others who regard it as only time thrown away. Both opinions seem erroneous, and arise from the same cause, namely, failure to look at the case in the proper light. It should not be forgotten that a representative government is such only so long as the whole people are represented, the intelligent and good as well as the ignorant and bad, and that, as a small force is not unfrequently...
...reasons why the precedent set by the action of six years ago should be disregarded. A committee of eminent lawyers decided against the election then, and a committee of equally eminent lawyers decide in favor of it now. There must be good reasons for violating a precedent when lawyers think it advisable to do so. And the reason in this case is that it is desirable to have the interests of the many graduates who are not residents of Massachusetts represented in so important a body as the Board of Overseers. It is undesirable to take a step which shall...
...certainly did not intend to advise "that the College Fund be discontinued," and I think that this meaning can hardly be drawn from my language. I have no objection to a College Fund, provided that every one is left perfectly free to subscribe or not, as he sees fit. In the case of many other subscriptions, - for instance, those to the Class Fund and to the University Crew, - a man cannot very well refuse to subscribe, unless he is absolutely unable to do so. About these subscriptions, then, as well as some others, there is, and very properly, more...
...before us? Granted that a student cannot perform certain every-day acts "without receiving that which he does not pay for," are there any other acts which any one can perform without continually receiving that which he does not pay for, without being in debt to the past? I think not. A. speaks of our debt to the College as if it were necessarily a pecuniary debt. It seems to me that it is more of an obligation than a debt, and that it can be paid off in some other way than in money. Indeed, a money subscription...
Some curious things may be learned by any one who will take the trouble to think a little about slang like this, - slang of the better kind, not that of the streets, - and it is a pity that some student of philology has not taken up the subject of slangology with care. I think he would be well rewarded...