Word: less
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON:-It seems to me that the committee of the senior class have adopted a wise resolution as to the dropping of candidates at the class election. Last year the committee recommended that the candidates having less than ten votes, etc., be dropped at the end of each formal ballot; but this recommendation was not approved by the class and there was no dropping at all. Before the end of the meeting it was universally admitted, I think, that it would have been better to drop the names as the committee recommended. It would seem advisable, then...
Students' Songs-The ever popular book "Students' Songs," keeps up its constant sale. More copies of it have been sent away to friends than of any book ever published in Cambridge. The new edition comprises the twenty-first thousand, five thousand copies having been sold in less than six months. The compiler, Mr. Wm. H. Hills, class of '80 is one of the editors of the Boston Daily Globe. "Students' Songs" can be had of Amee Bros., of Sever, or of the co-operative society...
...writing, and produce interesting, readable articles, such as will improve the tone of our papers and make them more entertaining than at present. If those not on the editorial boards would only turn their attention to doing something to aid the experions of the editors, there would be less necessity for filling up vacant columns with what to the majority seems mere trash, be it essays, orations or local items of blind import and little interest, though to editors, hard pressed for time and copy, it may seem acceptable reading matter. [Badger...
...might be induced to give some little time and a little thought to his studies. At any event, there would in this method be an absence of that wild excitement under which most of the injurious effects of athletic sports are brought about, and there would be less likelihood that the student would sprain his ankle, break his arm, or crack his skull...