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The following from the Advertiser will be of interest: "The students of Bowdoin College have voted to accept a proposition of the faculty, which, to a large extent, places in the hands of the students the discipline of the men. A jury, composed of one representative from each class, one from each intercollegiate society, and one from non-society students, is to be the tribunal which offenders will face. The president of the college is to bear to the jury the relation substantially of a judge in court, ruling upon questions of jurisdiction and the validity of decisions. Penalties are to be awarded by the president. A verdict of fact and a verdict of opinion are to be rendered. The former verdict must be unanimous, while the latter is to be determined by a majority vote. Four grades of offences are to be regarded in affixing penalties, deliberate falsehood being properly set down as an offence of the first magnitude. The jury is to give its judgment, based upon the verdict of fact. As to the grade of lawbreaking, if such an act has been committed. The president can in no case impose a heavier penalty than that assigned to the grade fixed by the jury. The two parties to the compact are the faculty and the undergraduates, and a three-fourths vote is required for withdrawing consent to the agreement. The details of the plan have been elaborated with admirable clearness, and the experiment will begin under the most favorable conditions. A conservative college like Bowdoin in trying such an experiment contributes importantly to a solution of the difficult problem of college discipline, a government which ought to have in it a 'sweet reasonableness.'

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