Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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College journals have always considered it their inalienable right to criticise anybody and everybody, but we propose to draw the line at the decision of a county judge, leaving it to those whose proper business it is to deal with such matters to make whatever comment they may deem advisable. But as to the general bearing of the new ruling, in reference to college discipline, regardless of its special origin and application, we venture to make a few observations...
That it is already difficult to secure testimony in college against offenders under the present prevalent sentiment, and that opprobrium is heaped upon one who does testify, however right he and his friends may consider his case to be, has been recently illustrated by the very events which indirectly led to the complication of a court trial, and the student whose testimony figured somewhat in the late trial was exempt from criticism by those who are usually disposed to shield wrong doing at all hazards, only because of his uniformly courteous bearing towards his fellow students, the high respect which...
...usually by reason of participation in the offence themselves. The most flagrant violations of college discipline are committed in secret and where all likely witnesses are sharers in the offence, not interested as abroad in bringing culprits to justice, but in shielding them from justice. Whether this is right is not the question here; we are dealing simply with fact...
...interpret the new law right - and we would be most happy to be corrected, if we are laboring under an essential misapprehension - there are but two courses open, either of which it fraught with serious difficulties...
...students. But they are not here to sit in judgment on a man who may commit a fault, to try him, and finally acquit or convict him. But where to make the distinction? here lies the difficulty. As the University is now conducted, they certainly have the right to investigate certain matters, and how are they to tell when the case is proper for their hands and when...