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...11th, on the lighting of the library by electricity, corroborated by a long article in Friday's Advocate. Our whole university has not a single need more deserving the attention of our benefactors and would-be givers than this lighting of the library. The change would be a direct furthering of those interests most essential and vital to the university as such...
...take food from another's table. Now although rules lead to inferences we are strongly of the opinion that certain stringent rules ought to be adopted forbidding all such performances. It is most unpleasant to be a witness of these constantly occurring contests, particularly so since they are in direct violation of all good order. The directors have shown themselves to be heartily in favor of all reforms, and we look to them then to suppress this most disagreeable and unnecessary practice...
...American Association will be whether it is best to allow an unrestrained freedom of movement in the pitchers delivery-admitting of either a pitched, a tossed, a jerked or an overthrown ball to the bat-or to still further limit the delivery so as to prevent the direct overthrow. There is one evil in connection with the rule of an unrestricted delivery of the ball which requires careful consideration so as to put a stop to it, and that is the effort to intimidate the batsman by willfully throwing the ball at him, or so close...
...Mass., and examined building and platforms on the west or water side of same, with a view of ascertaining the cause of accident Oct. 20, 1883. The platform I found in a wrecked condition-that is, a certain or central section of same-and at once concluded that the direct causes of accident were from the giving way, or pressure outward, of pile support and improper construction, allowing the second or upper platform to fall, with its human weight combined with the weight of material of construction, which would require more than ordinary construction of lower platform to resist. This...
...proper for me to state that I said no such thing. What I did say was that Catholics could obtain the higher branches at Yale and Harvard, but what I did not clearly explain perhaps, was the additional fact that our prelates wisely hold that we should direct and control such branches in a university of our own. I don't know who the priest is who so jauntily declares that "the danger of alienating our youth from Catholicism" is not very great as the result of a Harvard or Yale course. But this I will say, that...