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Dean Hurlbut's tentative settlement of the troubles growing out of the abstraction of the Brooks tablet seemed to me to realize so perfectly all the possibilities for good that the situation contained, that I have noticed with much regret some opposition to the fulfilment of his plan. I see that the Boston Herald, lately chastened by a Harvard graduate for printing malicious lies about his young children, expresses the conviction that the Dean's course compromises the dignity and authority of the University. The Herald praises the good sense of the undergraduates who favor the most drastic treatment...
...poor"; are not a little depressing. "The government of a University," says ex-Dean Briggs, "cannot with safety be entrusted to students; they are harsher than their elders and less just to persons whom they dislike." For my part, I would rather be caught, at twenty, lifting a bronze tablet out of Brooks House, than clamoring in the College papers for harsher punishment for a fellow student. The former offense is evidence of profound indiscretion, but is not inconsistent with honor or the noblest qualities. It shows misapprehension of some things, but not necessarily a corrupted character. Is punishment...
What would be the result of expelling the one man caught (who apparently neither entered the building nor knew that the stolen tablet was in memory of Bishop Brooks) and the non-adoption of the proposed agreement? The society would then be free to continue, greater precautions of secrecy would undoubtedly be taken by its members and more trouble for the University would ensue...
...idea of a memorial tablet was proposed by W. S. Hertzog '05 at the national convention of the Church Student Societies, held last December at Alexandria. His suggestion was endorsed by the Rt. Rev. L. H. Roots '91, bishop of Hankow, China, and by other Harvard graduates who were present. The following committee in charge was formed: Professor F. C. de Sumichrast, chairman, W. S. Hertzog '05, P. E. Wye '06, R. W. Skinner, Jr., '06, and R. H. Purnell '07. This committee received within a month from undergraduates and graduates subscriptions sufficient to purchase the tablet...
...occasion. It contains a life of Phillips Brooks written by Dr. G. A. Strong, his classmate at the Virginia Theological Seminary, the speech made by W. S. Hertzog '05 in suggesting the memorial, and the list of subscribers. It is illustrated with half-tones of Phillips Brooks, of the tablet, and of the faculty of the Virginia Theological Seminary...