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most of the remainder have signed the petition for the bill 

 under the impression that there is now no restriction upon 

 the practice at all, or if there is, that it has at least been 

 attempted to use the means the law now furnishes, and 

 that these means have been found wanting. 



We cannot possibly agree with the contention that this 

 is a matter for the lay man or woman to decide without 

 reference to the opinions of experts on the subject it is 

 as reasonable as to ask a plumber to mend a fractured leg 

 with solder, or to place any other ridiculous illustration in 

 evidence ; unless, of course, Mr. Chairman, the committee 

 are satisfied of the " defectiveness " of the remonstrants 

 that have appeared before them. 



Counsel constantly asserted that this is not an attack 

 against Harvard College but how can it be anything 

 else? If not an attack against Harvard College, what do 

 these extracts from the March " Century " mean, in a story 

 of a French toy-spaniel, published so apropos of this 

 hearing? 



(p. 677.) " At such moments the Massachusetts 

 woman fell into the way of saying, under her breath, 

 ' Harvard College shall never get you ' - (p. 673.) " i 

 mentto sell it to a Culledge i kno so help Me god i 

 did. They cut em up to amuje the Stoodints i thort 

 youde like to kno it- ' (p. 678.) " Her first articulate 

 words were, ' Harvard College shall never get you ! 

 and (page 679.) ' Which would you rather do, Ariel 

 goto Harvard or die?' The dog promptly turned 



over on his back and simulated stark death." 

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If not an attack against Harvard College, what possi- 

 ble excuse was there for the reference to the Webster 

 case --a crime of two generations ago, for which the 

 penalty was paid to the full ; a reference that when made 

 at one of these hearings five years ago, was so promptly 



