We earnestly hope that every man in College will sign the petition to the Administrative Board started at the Junior class meeting last night. For the petition, which is published in another column, will only have weight if it is generally signed.
There is good reason for signing the petition. Those for whom it asks the leniency of the Administrative Board have been already severely punished. The principal motive of the Administrative Board can hardly be to punish them severely for what they have done; but rather by promptness and severity to put an end for the future to disturbances such as the shooting of fire-arms on January 26. But the petition now being circulated, if generally signed, will promise for a large proportion of the undergraduates, that fire-arms and explosives will not be used in the future. There is no need then for punishment of more than ordinary severity.
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