Word: personal
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...elect the men who may at the moment chance to be most popular or most widely known among their classmates, the purely democratic elections which we have this season witnessed attain it with comparative certainty. If, on the other hand, the object is to elect to each office the person best calculated to fill it with credit, it is by no means so certain that democracy should be the leading characteristic of the elections...
Again, I think that the duties of such an office should be performed by some one for whose experience and character a class can have more reverence than is possible towards a person whom we do not know, or, at most, know only in the varied scenes of college life. I do not advocate the abolition of the last opportunity of a class to join in prayer, but only that the importance of that occasion should be appreciated, and that it should not be marred by any wonder as to how well Tom or Dick can "make a prayer...
...Chronicle, of the University of Michigan, publishes. a long article on Harvard. It is written in a very friendly spirit, and in better English than is generally discovered in that longitude, by a person who appears to consider himself familiar with his subject. His views on some matters, however, are remarkable. The following sentences are so replete with novelty that they deserve attention...
...give a notion of the expenses of the Club, we will quote from a letter recently sent us by one of its members. Subscribers of course expect seats, and it is necessary to erect them temporarily for each match. The person who bought the seats last year finds it impossible to erect them for a single day at a smaller price than $75, - three times what he gave for them. To prevent non-subscribers from occupying the seats, it has been found necessary to rope in a portion of the field, and to hire police-officers to guard it against...
...Tuesday evening some person or persons unknown placed a bomb in one of the windows of University Hall, and exploded it. The window frame was literally blown to pieces, the woodwork of the room was greatly injured, and dozens of panes of glass were broken. That the perpetrators of this act were not students is possible; but it is hard to believe that any one who could not claim the popular indemnity that connection with a college gives to petty malefactors would have ventured to expose himself to the risk of detection. In all probability this explosion was contrived...