That Athens School

"7"" one ln llle oriuKit eontlnues to auologize Hor that '¦ Amenoaa school in Athens," supported in pari ly Mie tax-payers In Michigan. Wedon'l aee the force of the apology. This wriit-r sayn, the mwssity of the school was proven y the fuct, liiut as soon as the projeot was etarted elght stud.-nts made known tbeir dealre to attend II ' KiKlit,1' and 11 t one ol theinaaon of Miohigau. There Is nol u city In Europe hut needs an 'American school," more than Atliens, and the Uiilwrsity migbt list as well send a full professor ut t expense .t the state to the "American Ooilege'' already txisting at Rome, as to uid Imlldfng a gcbool al win-ns lint the Ooilege al Rome Is a religión institution. so is the "American lonool" at Athens. It Is slmply a mlnlonary enterprlM andera maak. As suoh n is susiained by Yale, Harvard, and the Wesleyan, whose funds are thelr mm to dispose of as tliey wisi, whlle in malntatnlng a professor there the Univcrsitv ,,t Michigan steala tliemoney of the peoplc; besides (teallns trota the sludents theserv a of tbelrown pr mot-U that Is of any consequence.- Ypsilantl SenIt is dillicult to imagiue through wüiit colored glusses the editor of the SetUinel looks, if lie considers that the last two comuninication published In the Courieb, in any way apologizes for the American School at Atliuns. On the contrary each one questioned not only the wisdom ot' the regente in expending the people's money in scnding a professor to Athens as director, with full iiiy, but also questioned the benelit to be derived trom the school or accruing to those paying for it. It is our opinión, however, that the edtor of the Sentinel erra woefully in turining the school a relifíious institution. it has notliing to do witli religión, being in an entiiely different field ot research. One of the principal objections Dwdfl to the school is that it is for the higher education of tpeciallsta, and the op1e of tliisconimoiiweultU will be benefited verv little, If at all. ' The declaring of the E'fiiu elcction law bilí nuil and voitl by the suprema court last weck was a piece of partisanship rarely equalled by any dellberatvle body of the kind. Tlie Berrien Springs Era sums itup, in these words: "The principie object of stringent election lavvs is to suppress the bummer and fraudulent vote Asthis generally resulta in a democratie defeat, the democratie party, Inoluding democratie judjjes, are opposed to such laws." The Albion Republlcao figures the thing out about rifrlit, don't you think so? "No use to stand out any longer about adopting standard time. It is lega1 time; courts, tanks, public offices, saloons and days' worka will all be run on standard time. So set your watches, and when anybody tells you the time of dav teil him he lies, and t be Is a sensible sort of fellow he'li auswer you that he knows it, but he's got the whole statu of ilicliiKan to back him "