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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...should have the sympathy and aid of the different sections. It is impossible for the editors to secure every item of news about the university unless they are aided by outsiders. For such aid as has been readily given us by the officers of various organizations, we wish to express our thanks. But we should like to have the officers of all the organizations and indeed all the members of the university feel that any news that they may be possessed of, is of interest to our readers and will be thankfully received. We have a box in a well...
...recent trouble between the Princetonian and the faculty of Princeton college brings to mind a question in which all of us must be more or less interested-whether a college paper ought to have complete freedom to express its opinions. Every one has heard from his infancy the trite old maxim that the "freedom of the press is a necessary factor in a free country," until we have come to regard the press as the very impersonation of liberty. It is taken as a self-evident fact. But when as students we turn to the college papers, and ask ourselves...
...aggressive restrictions whose haste and indiscretion has to be repented in almost immediate concessions. But even these so-called concessions are sufficiently inadequate to indicate the reluctance with which they were made. And now the Princetonian has come under the displeasure of the Faculty by its too free expression of opinion. Not that that paper was guilty of any breach of respect in its attitude toward that body, but merely because it ventures to express opinions differing from those of the authorities in regard to certain points in the government of the college. If an instance of this kind...
...articles have recently appeared in our columns advocating the formation of a Rifle Club at Harvard, and we wish to say a few words in favor of the plan. The articles in question express, we think, the almost unanimous sentitiment of the university, and there seems to be every reason why we should encourage the growth of a sport that is at once so manly and so healthful, especially since being self-supporting, no pecuniary reasons can be urged against it. It would unquestionably be most advisable to have this club embrace all that portion of the students...
...anxious that his college should have a good ball nine," while we learn from a recent issue of a Harvard paper that the captain of the foot-ball team of that ancient seat of learning "has laid aside everything in favor of work on the field this fall." [Buffalo Express...