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...curtail the liberties now enjoyed by persons consulting the reference books, by placing the whole library of the French department under lock and key. Let us hope therefore, that a knowledge of the hardships and inconvenience in which others are placed, if not a sense of right and wrong, will induce the person who is at present in possession of the books to return them immediately...
...judging by reading the letters we published, written by the managers of the teams called in question. The justice of Yale's claims, when based on the foot-ball games, we have shown in its proper light, by both disproving the charges, and hence, naturally, showing their conclusions were wrong. But, putting aside the whole question of foot-ball, we have still the base-ball game on our hands to deal with. Of this, we can only say what we stated in our former editorial, which the News, by its array of "facts," attempted to prove unfair. "It is evident...
...means that the system of voluntary recitations, which has really never received a fairer trial, has proved a failure, and that the Harvard student is not prepared for the liberty hitherto tacitly allowed him. In other words, the advance of the last four years has been in the wrong direction...
...students have been compelled to act with decision and sternness. The Princeton students a short time ago found so much difficulty in enforcing discipline among the professors that they published a statement in regard to the bad conduct of the faculty, in order to array public sentiment against the wrong-doers. The seniors of Hamilton College have been brought face to face with a rebellion on the part of the faculty, and it seems probable that in the end the rebellion will triumph. Only last week representatives from half a dozen colleges met in order to discuss measures for enforcing...
...forcing a verdict by compelling the jury tostay out until a verdict is reached. Mr. McInnes, L. S., closed the negative. The speaker did not believe in trial by jury and thought that a jury is a body that is very easily influenced. "Better a new jury than a wrong verdict." We do not at present need the jury, but we should keep it to protect us in the future. We ought not to remodel a system so often used and proved through fear of the results which might arive from the obstinate action of one dissenting juryman...