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...College office will have small influence. More effectual will be the attitude of those their fellow-students who did not go out of the straight and narrow path for the festivities of one occasion, however great it was. Over the wretched ones who have had their first drunken debauch we can no longer be mirthful; we must show them that such is not the stuff of which true life is made. We must remind the erring that folly in a Freshman leads to shame in a grown man, and looseness among its students brings a great, noble university into...
...Carnegie Institute is firmly in sympathy with the exclusion of German music from orchestra programs. He writes: "It is Germany who has made war upon the humanities and upon the human spirit. It is no time to urge the finer things of life while Germany pursues her international debauch of murder, outrage and plunder. Nothing but the lasting scorn of human society can sting that arrogant nation into a penitence that will make safe and good neighbors of them. For anyone, therefore, to demand polite consideration and financial support of anything German would be in ill accord with the rage...
Three other phases of the war were touched on by Mr. Rhodes. He spoke a little of the finances of the country in 1864, and of the "debauch of flat money." He also dealt on Lincoln's unfriendly relations with Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, and the latter's withdrawal and subsequent appointment as Cheif Justice of the Supreme Court. And finally he considered Lincoln's high-minded plan of 1864: of paying to the slave states four million dollars for the giving up of their slaves, and the formation of peace. But there was no one else...
...Phoebus gilds the spines of Gore Hall, the morning air will be shattered by the infantile cries of the Senior class en route to the annual Senior Debauch and Clam Bake. Peddock's Island, where the Picnic was to have been held, went Prohibition when the plans were known, but Riverside opened welcome arms...