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...with individuals, so it is with nations. The nation must overcome evil with good. Let us apply this principle to anarchy. We try to suppress it, we must do more, we must cure it. This can be done only by education -- by teaching the people that government is a necessity, that our government is the best form of government ever devised, and that they must make it so good that every citizen will die, if necessary, to preserve its blessings to posterity...
...days before they sent any account in. They did so then only because their respective papers found out about the affair and asked for news on it. With scarcely any exaggeration a newspaper story of the yellowist description might have been written, but the correspondents agreed among themselves to suppress the worst particulars and to send in only such an account as should cast no reproach on the gentleman referred to, or on the University. Surely, when these facts are understood, no one can longer blame the Harvard representatives of the Boston newspapers for their action in the matter...
...England drove many of the Boer farmers to cross the Vaal, where they set up a government for themselves, England consenting at the Sand River Convention, held in 1852. The next advance movement of the English came in 1877, when an armed force was sent into the Transvaal to suppress an uprising of the Zulus, and took possession of the Boer government. Although the townspeople wished to be annexed to England when the Boers were driven out in 1878, the Boer farmers objected, and on being refused independence by Gladstone, revolted, but after defeating the English at Majuba Hill, they...
...which some undergraduates are always bound to show on the occasion of an athletic victory. One might as well blame a man or a newspaper for reporting the account of the Bram murder trial; since this was such a terrible murder and such a disgrace to civilization, why not suppress everything about it? Why not suppress some of the scandalous debates of the U. S. Senate or the House? Surely these debates are a discredit to the nation, and whoever reports them is, according to the standard of the writer in the Graduates' Magazine, "plying a shameless trade...
...Report of Dean Briggs.In the annual report of the Dean, considerable attention is given to the discussion of the struggle which has been made to suppress dishonesty in written work. He recites the attempt made to stop such dishonesty two years ago and the failure of that attempt. Dean Briggs thinks that the reason for this state of College morals is found in the double standard,-a shifting for the convenience of the moment, from the character of a responsible man to the character of an irresponsible boy. "The administrative officers," says he, "accept without question a student's word...