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...free in classroom teaching on subjects within the scope of his chair. He ought to be free to publish his lectures or the results of his investigations, subject only to the qualification that what he writes should be uttered in a scholarly tone and form. He ought not to foist upon a class that is compelled to listen to him opinions on subjects outside of the field of his special competence, but this is a minor point, not actually calling for discipline. As a man, he is bound to have opinions on other subjects than his own, and even though...
...unworthy popularity of some such man may give a class an unsatisfactory officer; or what is worse, a piece of scheming school politics may foist on the class a man whom they are afterwards sorry to see in office...
YALE NEWS.The plan which was given forth to the public by the Boston papers on Monday, thus authoritatively is denied. The reporters who were able to foist the affair into prominence succeeded in creating something of a disturbance, Harvard men will be only too glad to learn that the whole affair originated in a newspaper office and not in the managements of the Columbia and Yale crews...