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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...question of government telegraphy. The desirability and feasibility of making the telegraph a government institution is clearly shown. This method has been in vogue in England ever since 1868 with very good results, due in a great part to the purity of the civil service there. The only thing which prevents its adoption here is the bad state into which our government service has come under the "spoils system." As this, however, is being rapidly done away with, we may look forward to cheaper and more efficient telegraph service under the management of the government...
...method of having a personal conference and adopting and signing a set of written rules. The success of the method with Yale leads us to ask why the same plan should not be adopted with Columbia. Surely, in view of our experience with her last year, such a thing would not be out of place. In this way we should avoid a repetition of difficulties, the blame of which can be fastened satisfactorily upon no one. As a rule, we think that every athletic contest, especially an inter-collegiate contest, should be governed by a set of definite written rules...
...least made voluntary. There is no movement against morning chapel, except on the part of a mere handful who would escape all religious exercises if it were possible. All classes meet for recitation at that hour, and it is not felt to be a hardship or any thing unjust to require attendance at that hour...
...Scripture, followed by a prayer by a professor appointed to take charge of the services for the day. This is followed by declamation by members of the junior class. The exercises on the part of the students are more varied. They read, study, talk and do any thing they may please, until some few are selected and made an example of. Then there is a lull for a few days, but soon the disorder becomes worse than ever. The rules in regard to attendance are very strict. No liberty whatever is allowed. Every student must be in chapel every morning...
...achieve all that is possible. The motto of Cambridge rejects the common sense of the classic maxim and pretends that omnia possumus omnes - that we can be scholars, and learned and wise and witty, and be oarsmen and runners and blacksmiths, and all that sort of thing...