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...meeting held in St. Louis on Saturday last to discuss the question of compulsory education, letters were read from Presidents Eliot, McCosh and Porter. Presidents Eliot and McCosh both favored compulsory attendance at schools, which view was also taken by President Porter, who said that he took it for granted that the only reason why the State is justified in taxing all its citizens for the support of public schools is that it may promote its true well-being, and perhaps defend itself from irreparable disaster; and that if this is to be assumed, then it is equally clear that...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON.-At the recent Princeton Alumni dinner in New York, while Dr. McCosh stated many sound reasons for the aptitude of the college faculty regarding athletics, he used the following severe sentence: "I am sure that neither the manners nor morals of our students are elevated by association with every sort of gaming company." It is such words as these, we believe, that do more injury to college athletics than any other statements. It is well known in the college world that the morals and manners of the athletic men are much better than those of the rest...
...McCosh of Princeton, said, after a lecture to the senior class last Thursday: "Our college is not in a good state. I do not know exactly the feeling of the students. I wish to say if any one has any complaint to make, let him bring it to the faculty, and I will promise him a fair hearing. I am president of the college and have authority. If you wish to go to the trustees-it is the highest authority-that court is open to you. The public, as I happen to know, thinks the college...
...recent speech President McCosh of Princeton said: "We teach every branch of high learning taught in any college in America. We have to make some studies elective. The obligatory studies are the old branches which have stood the test of ages, which trained our forefathers, and are fitted to enlarge the mind and prepare young men for their life work. Among these we have now and mean to retain the classical tongues, especially Greek, as opening to us the grandest literature of the ancient world, and especially the language of the Greek Testament. On this subject we are unanimous...
...McCosh advised the disaffected Princeton students to lay their grievances before four lawyers. He says the faculty can prove the falsity of the charge and asks the students not to injure their college by making their wrongs public...