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...following extract from an article in a recent number of the "Dickinsonian" adds new material to the question of college government...
...article which we reprint from the "Dickinsonian" this morning, touches upon a subject that may in the future become one of the great college questions. It is well worth the reading, for though the subject that caused its publication has little interest to us, yet the question therein shown in so clear a light concerns us as nearly as it ever can Dickinson College. To put the matter in its plainest light it is this: A student finds himself in difficulty, a difficulty which has nothing to do with his studies. The faculty take up the case...
...Dickinsonian publishes a poem entitled "Sub Silentio," which for indecency is unsurpassed. It is surprising that the public opinion of any American college, large or small, will tolerate such a thing; and if the gross sensuality of the Dickinson poet is at all characteristic of his college, a state of morals must exist there as low and as dangerous as the most ardent hater of liberal education could desire...
...Dickinsonian says that our poem entitled "Venus Victrix" has so charmed one of their Sophs. that he insists upon every one reading it who comes into the room. Perhaps our Sophs will enjoy the following, clipped from the said journal...