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The Record in speaking of the Princetonian affair says: The attitude of the Princeton faculty toward the students is in many respects in marked contrast to that of the Harvard and Yale faculties toward the students under their control. Evidently at Princeton there is a great veneration for old customs and traditions, which precludes a just comprehension of more modern ideas. This is evinced in the various actions taken by the faculty in regard to athletics. These consist of aggressive restrictions whose haste and indiscretion has to be repented in almost immediate concessions. But even these so-called concessions are sufficiently inadequate to indicate the reluctance with which they were made. And now the Princetonian has come under the displeasure of the Faculty by its too free expression of opinion. Not that that paper was guilty of any breach of respect in its attitude toward that body, but merely because it ventures to express opinions differing from those of the authorities in regard to certain points in the government of the college. If an instance of this kind had occurred when college papers first began to be published, its cause would have been found in the fact that their influence was misapprehended and feared. But the college press have too long exerted a beneficial effect to suffer the suspicion of doubt as to their utility. Their generally just treatment of questions of college interest vindicates their right to a free expression of opinion, if they have any right to exist at all. That this is now a generally accepted belief is indicated by the almost unheard-of interference of college faculties with the exercise of this power. In many of the colleges the growing consideration for student opinion has resulted in the admission of its voice in the councils of college management, and there would seem to be no fair reason for the suppression of college public sentiment through the generally faithful medium of the press.

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