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...subject for the next Senior forensic is apparently designed to embody, in a more or less permanent form, the results of certain thorough investigations recently made by some members of the class. The subject is as follows: "Is trial by jury the mode of trial best fitted to determine the truth and establish the right...
...ought to possess. And ever since I met him I have been tormented with the idea that you might possibly be sacrificing your old notions of manners, which I am bound to say were very good, to the theories of good-fellowship which happen to be popular among a certain class of people in Cambridge. So I am going to relieve myself by a lecture on manners, which you had better read if you think you need it, and skip...
...interest of a very large number of students, and if they desire to protect themselves, their proper course is to join the Association at once. Investigations which are being made seem to show that the affairs of the Association have been very poorly managed, and it is certain that a new steward will be selected who will avoid the blunders of his predecessor. If a sufficient number of those who have been driven from the Hall by the mistakes of the past will give the Association one more trial, the price of board will undoubtedly be kept at a reasonable...
This is the extent of the coalition which the Advocate so loudly decries; but why should it be regarded more detrimental to an open election for men, non-society and society, to unite in supporting a certain ticket, than for men inside a society to unite in doing the same thing? That there was a "coalition" between the members of the Pudding, not to mention persons outside of it, is evident from the facts, first, that before the meeting several Pudding men, in one case as many as four, were nominated by Pudding men for the same office; and, secondly...
...straight, or a Tom and Jerry singly, you do wrong in reasoning that you can carry them together. By Jupiter, you must have imbibed enough to bridge the infernal regions for the space of eight stades," - I fear he meant enough to patch - a mile, but am not certain; "in fact," he continued, "your symmetrical form is in jeopardy...