Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Dean Hurlbut's agreement does neither the one nor the other. It does not take the first view, for it self-evidently shows annoyance at the incident, tries to brush the Med. Fac. away like some trouble some fly, and means to purchase immunity from attacks of the society by grace to one of its members. Nor does it take the other view. It does not go to the bottom, at shows mercy without uprooting the evil...
...Dean's course compromises the dignity and authority of the University. The Herald praises the good sense of the undergraduates who favor the most drastic treatment of the case. Smarting itself with recent stripes it howls for the punishment of others. It doubts that the terms of the agreement with the Med. Fac. will be lived up to by its members; suggests that the Harvard authorities seem to regard Harvard students as a privileged aristocracy, and artfully bends itself to stir up bad blood inside and outside of the University...
...might be punished by the College and put in prison by the civil authorities. In consideration of a promise to relieve them of these penalties the undergraduate members of the Med. Fac. have contracted to bring the existence of the society to a close." No description of the proposed agreement could be further from the truth than this last sentence; but it represents a popular misconception that accounts for most of the criticism that has been aroused. It is true that the College authorities will "stand aside" and "let the law take its course" but those who suppose that...
...advantages to be gained by this agreement are manifold. We are not only to be rid of an organization that has done us great harm in the past, but one whose very presence in the College community will do us great harm in the future...
What would be the result of expelling the one man caught (who apparently neither entered the building nor knew that the stolen tablet was in memory of Bishop Brooks) and the non-adoption of the proposed agreement? The society would then be free to continue, greater precautions of secrecy would undoubtedly be taken by its members and more trouble for the University would ensue...