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...weather during the vacation prevented all the games arranged for the nine except two, one with the University of Pennsylvania and one with the New Yorks. The team has played only four games thus far and can not get much practice before the Yale game on Saturday. Rain on Saturday prevented the game with the Josephs of Manhattan College, who won the pennant offered by the New Yorks last year to college teams...
...indeed the validity of such testimony is by no means to be lightly regarded, except in the severe processes of law counts. Men are discharged from clerkship, from positions on rail-roads and numerous other corporations on much less weighty testimony than the average faculty considers necessary to the infliction of discipline upon refractory students. In fact, high authority may be found in favor of such testimony. The technicalities of law cannot be wisely admitted into the common relations of business and life. In regard to that which touches the courts so nearly as the regulation of police removals...
...Dickinsonian" offers an alternative. First, that witnesses be compelled to give testimony, and secondly, that the faculty give up every care of the students except in scholarship. The first is practically impossible, be cause for one reason, a student who feels that some one is trying to compel him to speak against his will would be all the more likely to refuse, and, also, because then the undergraduates and the instructors are at once pitted against each other in the old hatred which, thanks to the liberalism of recent years, is fast passing away. But the second course. When...
...Sunday afternoon the majority of the members of the troupe left Boston by the 4.30 train via Springfield for New York. Like the wandering Florimel, the journey "had no mar," except that special cars were not provided as had been promised, and the train was over-crowded. On arriving at New York, the party at once proceeded to the "Rossmore" on Broadway and 41st streets. On Monday morning the missing actors, who had left Boston on Saturday, turned up at the Assembly Rooms of the Metropolitan Opera House for rehearsal at 10 o'clock...
...proper to take this new traffic at a lower rate than that at which other traffic is received; and there can be no injustice in this, So through traffic is favored often at the expense of that between intermediate points. The railroad ought not to be blamed for this, except when the rates are given by irresponsible subordinates, such rates usually resulting in great and pernicious monopolies...