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Still, as I have said, the failure is but partial. I believe that a system of self-government by the students can be formed which will be popular, effective and broad enough in its scope to escape the odium which has become attached to our form...
...week, Dr. McCosh said of the recent Princeton troubles: "We did not proceed at once to discipline our young gentlemen, believing that they had been very properly arrested by the town authorities and punished according to law. Since their action we have suspended those found guilty. Stung by the odium cast on the college by the late riotous proceedings, all of the students, save three or four who were absent at the time, have signed a pledge not to indulge in it during their college course. During my presidency of about ten years I have always demanded pledges from those...
...even four. Particular classes in different colleges may sometimes happen to be approximately equal in size, even when there is great disparity in that respect between the colleges themselves. Furthermore, an oarsman may fairly be presumed to have less hesitancy in trying his luck when he feels that the odium of possible defeat will attach to the name of his class rather than to the name of his college...
Despite, however, these arguments in support of Harvard's wish to secede, some of the graduates, and a few newspapers, warn Harvard against leaving the Association because of the "odium" which she will certainly incur by such a course. Fair Harvard will be dishonored, for-sooth, if a few penny-a-liners, through dearth of news, choose to call her motives of action base; Harvard will lose men's esteem, should she acknowledge her real feelings and cast aside all shuffling and timidity; Harvard, indeed, the oldest and largest university in the land, whose children hold - and have always held...
...customs are not indulged in, though it is not best to be too inquisitive on that point. Hint to a collegian that he has stolen certain "ornaments" in his room, and he will resent it as an insult; accuse him of "ragging" them, and he will smile blandly,-the odium attached to the word "steal" is gone. In Germany, a student in the gymnasium is called a "frog," and in his first half-year after entering a university he is termed a "fox," which is equivalent to our "Freshman." Why he should be thus called is not easy...