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...suddenly-announced penalty that opinion must be based. The threat to forbid the Freshman crew to race at New London unless all the offenders confessed and the actual disqualification from all activities of a large part of the Sophomore class are facts to be remembered in considering the latest plan for pledges of good behavior...
...radical actions of this fall, is common knowledge. The Yale authorities have acted with a firmness which is admirable but apparently extreme. For they have persevered in their intention of stamping out disturbances between "town and gown" at no matter what cost to undergraduate activities. According to the latest report Sophomores have been asked to sign a pledge promising not to "take part in any noisy or riotous actions or demonstration in the streets of New Haven" and to do all in their power to prevent their "fellow students from offending against the peace or prosperity of this city...
Aside from the fact that the pledge system of improving morals has hardly proved an enduring method of reform in college or community, there is one obvious criticism of Yale's latest action. It is characteristic of the policy of mass punishment for the sake of example rather than individual punishment according to the gravity of the case. And it is this policy, followed consistently since the beginning, which has provoked the telling accusation of boarding school methods...
Rosita Forbes, attractive English lady-explorer, returned to London from her latest exploit- a visit to the brigand of Morocco, Raisuli. She stayed for eleven days in the bandit Chief's mountain stronghold in the midst of his ménage consisting of two wives, nine daughters, three sons, three score slaves. Mrs. Forbes said that Raisuli claimed a pedigree extending back to Noah and that he had a surprising knowledge of European affairs. She described him as " a heavy man of 52, with a henna beard." She also reported that he was friendly to Spain, but that...
...supply suitable rewards. He has established the Philadelphia Award of $10,000 annually to the person who renders the most significant service to that city. He has established the American Peace Award of $100,000 (see page 6) for a practical peace plan suitable to the American temperament. His latest stimulation of effort is a series of advertising prizes...