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...present system of suspending privileges will be enforced in the case of reserved books, and for flagrant offences...
...other point which the writer of the communication touched upon deserves consideration, although not such flagrant examples of this fault as of the other have come to our notice. But certainly if there are men who are tempted to make the struggle about the Tree an occasion for settling old scores, they should learn to choose some other place to do their fighting. The object of the tree exercises is to get the flowers, not to mutilate the next man, and the exercises ought always to be kept within gentemanly bounds. A certain amount of "scrapping" is, as the writer...
...this in spite of the declaration that Republican promises were to be fulfilled without regard to the attitude of Democratic administration. He praised Secretary Tracy's reform in the navy yards, but showed that it had not received President Harrison's approval. In conclusion he pointed out the flagrant abuses of civil service reform principles in the case of the demands for subscriptions upon office-holders made by the managers of the Ohio campaign and approved by McKinly, the eloquent upholder of civil service reform in Congress...
...other solution of their disappearance. It is disagreeable to have to characterize such actions even as inconsiderate, but it seems to require stronger words, for it amounts to nothing more nor less than stealing, I am sorry to have to call your attention to such a flagrant ahuse of privileges as some man is guilty of, but hope that a widespread knowledge of the facts may lead to an effective check upon such action in the future...
...have intimated, under the present sentiment, volunteer testimony is out of the question and those usually most competent to testify are interested by reason of friendship for the parties accused and lack of sympathy with the authorities, and usually by reason of participation in the offence themselves. The most flagrant violations of college discipline are committed in secret and where all likely witnesses are sharers in the offence, not interested as abroad in bringing culprits to justice, but in shielding them from justice. Whether this is right is not the question here; we are dealing simply with fact...