Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bring their matters before the public, but before the faculty, and he would see that they were heard. If there were facts let them be investigated. No man had any authority to do as the students claim a certain professor had done. The president spoke of his action in regard to secret societies, and said it was better for Princeton to legislate on her own matters in this case, as she had done in that. "Let us settle our questions," he said, "among ourselves...
...which it is possible to strike, the students should themselves take the initiative. It is they who know best what they want, and if they wish the faculty to enact rules which they can heartily support, they ought to let that body know what these wants are. Some action should be taken, either by the athletic organizations, as heretofore, or a general discussion of the subject should be encouraged. We think that action by the executive committees of the athletic organizations would be the better way of accomplishing the desired end. They are selected for their knowledge of athletics...
...lecturer began the comparison of the two, by saying that if the emotion of sympathy be, as many have thought, the true basis of moral action, then the utilitarian view would appear to be the only right one. Sympathy with suffering would increase with the suffering that was the object of sympathy, and would estimate it as a mass. But is sympathy the real basis of moral conduct? One of the best arguments in favor of mere sympathy as the principle of morals is Schopenhauer's. He insists that sympathy or pity is unselfish, is in fact the only...
President Eliot, we learn, wishes it to be understood that the faculty is far from giving up its project of the inter-collegiate regulation of athletics. The faculty, it is claimed, were chiefly influenced in reconsidering their recent action by the attitude of other colleges, which seemed to be generally unfavorable to the regulations as they stand. It will again make determined efforts to secure the passage of the regulations in a modified form, however, so that they will meet with the approval of enough colleges to give them binding force. Meanwhile the students, we presume, are expected to occupy...
...desire to retract, in part, our editorial remarks of yesterday reflecting upon the action of one of the instructors in the Latin department, as we find that they were founded on misinformation and do serious injustice to the instructor whose methods were criticised, which we sincerely regret. In our item which stated that members of Latin 2 answering "Not prepared" would not be again called on during the year, we should have also stated that those giving a sufficient excuse before the recitation would not be subjected to this rule. This throws an entirely new light on the whole matter...