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...organization have decided to exert their best endeavors to check the abuses which have crept into the teaching of French, which has of late often been intrusted to individuals of foreign nationalities who do not scruple to represent themselves as professors of a language whose very rudiments are unknown to them...
Some persons, unknown, have ordered copies of the Lampoon to be sent away from Cambridge to their friends. Unless such persons leave their names at Sever's this week bills will be sent to those receiving the papers. All who have not paid their subscriptions will confer a great favor by doing so at once...
...probably unknown to many students that twice since the beginning of the college all work has been suspended in Cambridge, and once, carried elsewhere for a whole year. Both of these periods of absence were during the Revolutionary war and the cause was military exigency in each case. At that time the college numbered so few that a change of location was not quite as difficult as it would be today with our hundreds of students and more instructors than the students of 1775. The first exodus was in May 1775. The provincial army was fast gathering in Cambridge...
...freedom of the people is in any degree curtailed. Moreover in Germany no salaries are paid the members of the Reichstag, which is the body directly representative of the interests of the common people. This is, of course, conducive to a purity of politics which in this country is unknown. The advocates of direct personal suffrage claim that the introduction of that system into Germany would be better for the country inasmuch as the poorer classes of people would be ensured, more direct representation in the national legislature. And by the salarying of members of the Reichstag, a better representation...
...seem to oppose the ultra-conservative policy of their college. The college papers indulge in frequent sarcasm upon the subject and one might imagine from their tone that the condition of affairs at Yale was altogether very gloomy and hopeless, and that such a thing as progress was quite unknown in the Yale faculty. It is quite to the honor of Yale students, as of all college students, that they are always to be found on the side of progress and in favor of more liberal methods. A lively interest is taken at Yale, if we may judge from...