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...this edition de lux. Each picture is numbered and has a description attached. Some of the corpses had been in the water a day, some a week, some-nobody knew how long. Some were clothed, some were naked; some lacked an arm or leg or head, some lacked everything except a single leg or arm, which came up in the net of some fisherman, with a few rags of cloth clinging to it. We sicken at the fearful list. Let us press on into the interior of the building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Description of the Paris Morgue. | 2/25/1885 | See Source »

...fault could be found with the management. But if '87 paid as much to support its freshman crew as classes generally do, (and I for one, think that it paid even more), then it seems to me that there is no reason for the shameful running into debt, except the almost criminal blundering of the manager...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 2/25/1885 | See Source »

...lowest circle of hell. It was in Milton that the Devil became truly grand. Here he is represented as comparatively free, warring against the Almighty, detiant even when conquered by superior force. I am far from joining in the general admiration for "Paradise Lost." The poem, except the part which deals with Satan, seems to me exceedingly formal and wanting in true inspiration. God and the whole heavenly council talk like the divines of the Westminster Assembly. Adam and Eve are a typical Puritan and his wife. The heavenly and infernal hosts fight a sort of celestial Marston Moor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/25/1885 | See Source »

...same freedom as when we say that a Negro is not free to vote because he is intimidated. For the Negro may still vote if he has cour-age enough to run the risk; but the frozen stream cannot possibly flow. Besides, a stream is not free to flow except when it is actually flowing, but a man may be free to vote and yet never cast his ballot. Thus by liberty we mean sometimes action and sometimes only permission; in the first case, action becoming possible becomes at the same time necessary, so that freedom means that a given...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Problem of the Freedom of the Will in its Relation to Ethics. | 2/25/1885 | See Source »

...student members shall be elected for one year, during the second week of the college year,-except the freshman members, who shall be elected during the second week after the Christmas recess...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Conference Meeting. | 2/24/1885 | See Source »

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