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...suggest, no sympathy is due the men. They heedlessly took their risk of punishment; 'yes, more, as the event has proved, though they could hardly have anticipated such a result, they recklessly imperilled the cause of which they were the chosen guardians. They deserve punishment and the harshest censure from the public opinion of the College. But why such punishment, one that bears hardest, not on the culprits, but on the crew, and especially on its devoted captain and the hard-working coach, and on the University as a whole? Why not show some sense of proportion, some justice...
There are thus insuperable difficulties in a system of taxing everything, and the harshest measures must be adopted to make such a system even moderately successful. The tax-payers in Boston are denied the privileges of criminals. The system is not American, but a relic of Rome. Every civilized nation except the United States has discarded...