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...interest in our affairs, and which, though natural in the lower classes, should speedily be overcome by men who are beginning to have a share in decisions upon questions of national interest, involving alike their honor, their safety, and their property. The Freshman, naturally shy about speaking before his unknown classmates, thinks that the easiest way will be to put all his interests in the hands of an executive committee, whose only relation with him henceforth will be that of an importunate creditor, fondly believing that the Crew and the Nine will be organized in the best possible way without...
...Tuesday evening some person or persons unknown placed a bomb in one of the windows of University Hall, and exploded it. The window frame was literally blown to pieces, the woodwork of the room was greatly injured, and dozens of panes of glass were broken. That the perpetrators of this act were not students is possible; but it is hard to believe that any one who could not claim the popular indemnity that connection with a college gives to petty malefactors would have ventured to expose himself to the risk of detection. In all probability this explosion was contrived...
...three articles in the Bowdoin Orient indicate that hazing is by no means unknown in Brunswick. One humorous description of an unsuspicious Freshman walking under a Sophomore's window, and being deluged with water from above, is particularly noticeable. For the last few years the tone of American college feeling on this matter has been very healthy, and it is not agreeable to perceive, in the organ of a New England college, indications of a change for the worse. In a brand-new Western institution, where boorish boys and silly school-girls are huddled together, very much as their copper...
While the clouds, like unknown ranges...
...that desirable object has never been secured, I believe, except where the representatives equal or outnumber the represented. But I do hold it as easily demonstrable, that all the evils of open election exist in the old society system, while its virtues are, for the most part, there unknown...