Word: set-back
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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...reserved for America, of course, to make the first complete experiment in the matter. At the State Industrial University, at Champaign, Illinois, for a number of years, a thoroughly organized and once successful students' government has been in operation. Of late, however, this Utopian scheme has received a decided set-back, and the fate of self-government for students and of this first quasi declaration of independence of theirs hangs trembling in the balance. A special correspondent of the HERALD, at Champaign, writes as follows, speaking, as will be seen, to a certain extent, ex cathedra: "I can afford...