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There was some criticism of the work of the Union last year which, without doubt, may serve as a guide to avoid such criticism in the future, if it is just, and to render it palpalbly unjust if it is so. There is often, it is true, too much school-boy oratory displayed when those who are ambitious for forensic honors first address the Union. But this is inevitable, and should be judged leniently. The work of the society merits the support of every student, while it seldom calls for his criticism...
...intention of infringing upon the rights of their fellow students. But if, by some chance, their conduct is guided by other motives, - motives of an improper kind, it is well to let them know that college opinion justly condemns such acts as theirs, under the name of petty school-boy tricks...
...would not draw comparisons between Harvard and her rival in this regard, for such attempted comparison would be not only discourteous, but even untrue. Harvard of '86 can, however, be compared with Harvard of '66. Within these twenty years a disposition has asserted itself to do away with school-boy tricks and college barbarisms, on the part of the students, and to abolish police surveillance on the part of the faculty. The authorities have thus encouraged a spirit of manhood, and the students have been eager to sustain...
...powers of memorizing at the expense of everything else. Several letters stand for one sound and vice versa. There are many silent letters and syllables, and altogether the English language is the worst constructed of any now in existence, except, perhaps, that of the heathen Chinee. An Italian school-boy learns to read Italian in a little over nine hundred hours, while it takes the average English boy three thousand five hundred hours to learn his native tongue...
...President Seelye has never, we believe, exercised this right, and so the Senate's decrees have been final. The jurisdiction of the Senate extends over matters of discipline, which would not probably come within the province of our conference committee. Wherever among students, there is a tendency to carry school-boy tricks and manners into college, a trial of the delinquents by their fellow students has always been found very beneficial, and the Amherst experiment has proved most successful in this respect...