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Justice Expatiates

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Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
December
Year
1892
Copyright
Public Domain
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E'l. Ooupter : The followlng para gpnph was -glven editorial prominenc in Kunday'.s Detroit Tribune : The üis'guvstiiig exhtbitioo of hoort lumism by Ana Arbor students at tii'e attempt-ed sle of seats for the lectuire conree yesterday morning is one of t'hose events whkh make tSioughtful men more or lees ashamei of ooilege memori s. Ir' tlie youitg men ■lid mot like the methode of the boari tJiey had ■the privilege of not buyinj, rlR-tkkets. The writer of that item evidentie doe-! not understand w-hat he is talk Ing abouit. If the Tribune would in vrtisate betore it expresses so posi tivs a.n opinión it would not only be better for its columns but for the repu fatiön of the University nlso, whiel fs injured by every sueh item a-s that t'n a state paper. In the ffepst place, all those present at University hall Saturday morning were ticket liolders. The tickets for i!i!' series oif lecttires had already been sqIü. Which fact the Tribune '-vi déntly doesn'i andsrstand. The Lee ttive Asso;-iation board, after Helling npwaMs of 2,000 sea;:o!i tickets, wlbl ih' undeistanding that holdsrs ooiild the priviieg'3 o: reservhig theii - Pot ca li lecture, as had alw:iyh been 1I1 ■ -lisiom, resolved to change the plan entirely, and to permanent íy eell au additional amount, the 3 nis in the hall. Ii sulch a proposttion had tieein made at the aiit-set, tie-h'alf the season ti.k-ts would ratTf&ae sr . h wias in th? interest of those who had plenty of moncy, giving them artvantnge over the poorer fstudents and people, who had paid for ti kets. Then ngain every m:'tliod that could be tlionght of was used to convince tlif l.oard that they were doing an injuBtice, and to cause them to revoke thieir desiBion. Tlioy were stubliorn, however, and would not listen to avguments and proteste. A large majority of thte tkbet holderá were jTistly indignan t. They counciled togetlier and concluded that the "rushlng"plan Avas tüie only way to preprevent tfte cturyüng out of the obol ij e :-t Sonable proposition. Tliis they did. There was do hoodlumlsm about It. There was nothimg for anyone except perhaps a oe'wispaper scribbler a long düstance away who knew nothing about the faxrts ia the matter, to be asliamed of. Bferoaftèr if the Lecture Asso.intion (lcsiic ;u peeerve for the season let them sell tickets wiith that uiulerRtanding, and not attempt to spring it upon innocent purchaeers war d .

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier