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...year accounts are audited by a committee and found to be all right. If the expenses have seemed too large to any contributor or he system wrong, all he can do is to refuse to contribute the next year. Thus if the club has run into debt the only redress for those who support it is to run it still further into debt, by refusing to contribute. The ineffectiveness of this method of redress is therefore apparent at once, and there seems to be no other method which can be employed. The contributors are at the mercy of the manager...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/20/1887 | See Source »

...Crook believes in giving them the franchise as the one means of making them law-abiding citizens and raising them from their present degrading situation. As the case stands now, they can get no redress for wrongs committed against them by white...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gen. Crook's Lecture. | 3/1/1887 | See Source »

Article 25 begins, "The aim of these Articles of Agreement is to secure truthfulness, prompt redress of grievances, fair treatment for all, and that education and self-restraint which come from participation in and submission to a representative government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jury System at Bowdoin. | 4/11/1885 | See Source »

...subject, but afterwards, in a fit of petty spite, bawls out his grief in a newspaper. We express no opinion as to the taste displayed, but we do hope that, after his sophomore year, he will regret this public attack on a deservedly popular instructor, where private redress, for his supposed wrong, might have been so readily obtained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 2/13/1885 | See Source »

...sincerely hope that a repetition of the disgraceful affair of Sunday noon in the dining hall will never occur. Whatever may be the provocation, no student is justified in making use of such a method of chastisement. There are other much more dignified and expedient means of redress, which may be made use of by an appeal to the proper authorities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/14/1883 | See Source »

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