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...word freedom has many meanings. When who say that a stream is not free to flow because it is frozen, we do not speak of the same freedom as when we say that a Negro is not free to vote because he is intimidated. For the Negro may still vote if he has cour-age enough to run the risk; but the frozen stream cannot possibly flow. Besides, a stream is not free to flow except when it is actually flowing, but a man may be free to vote and yet never cast his ballot. Thus by liberty we mean...
...conference committee yesterday is its conservatism. It does not recommend that the students be given any executive power; the committee proposed is to be simply a body for discussion and for passing resolutions. A motion recommending the grant of executive power was defeated by a practically unanimous vote...
...very complex one, providing for delegates from the societies, athletic bodies, and newspapers, and the one which was finally adopted. The '88 delegates here made an ineffectual protest against the small number of delegates allowed them, but their hopes were ruthlessly crushed, and their motion lost, by a vote...
...committee of conference shall have the powers of a committee of the faculty. By this, it is meant that, whenever the committee sees fit, it can, as the result of a conference, adopt, by a majority vote of the student members, a resolution which the faculty members, a resolution which the faculty members shall report,-like the report of a committee-as soon as possible to the faculty; and the faculty members shall, as soon as possible, report back to the student members the action of the faculty in regard to the report, and the grounds of this action...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- In justice to myself, I wish to state that the article in Wednesday's Herald headed " Study of Greek Optional," was written at the advice of a prominent member of the faculty in the Greek department. The gentleman informed me that an informal vote on the question stood 30 to 2, and that the final vote was postponed as a matter of form to the next meeting, and urged me to say that the faculty had already decided the matter. I never have, and never shall, " print news on insufficient information in a great city daily...