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...following extract from an article in a recent number of the "Dickinsonian" adds new material to the question of college government...
...authority may be found in favor of such testimony. The technicalities of law cannot be wisely admitted into the common relations of business and life. In regard to that which touches the courts so nearly as the regulation of police removals in New York, Chancellor Howard Crosby, in a recent number of the "Forum," advocates that "the legislature make the board of commissioners' powers final," for under the regulation which allows discharged policemen to appeal to the civil courts, if the commissioners discharge men for what seems to them adequate cause, "the civil courts, with their abounding technicalities, will...
...insist on such evidence against a student as would stand only after passing through the mazy and fitful processes of law courts; if, as was remarked in our own recent trial, you are going to make the faculty not judges but mere jurymen, how in the name of common sense is the conviction of any student to be secured? You say, "take measures that will compel students to testify under penalty of expulsion." But to say nothing of the inquisitorial character of such a proceeding, two very serious difficulties stand in the way which the law escapes, and which...
...feels that some one is trying to compel him to speak against his will would be all the more likely to refuse, and, also, because then the undergraduates and the instructors are at once pitted against each other in the old hatred which, thanks to the liberalism of recent years, is fast passing away. But the second course. When we come here to college most of us are between nineteen and twenty years of age, and if we are not old enough then to take hold of the world as a man should, it is likely that we never shall...
...bequest, having been received by the treasurer of the University, and the income therefrom being already available for the support of work at the Observatory. The addition of this fund to those previously available raises the endowment of the institution to a little short of $400,000. This recent increase in the means of the Observatory, Prof. Pickering states, will ultimately permit a corresponding extension in its work, but for the moment will largely be required for the publication of observations already make, and for effecting permanent improvements in the condition of the institution which have long been urgently needed...