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...name would lead one to suppose that it was a place of public entertainment, where the performances were presumably of a variety character; the last that the word theatre was unknown in our language, pretty much as campus suggests the idea that its pedantic inventors were ignorant of the good old English yard. The facts of the case are, that Mr. Charles Sanders, of Cambridge, left a large sum to the College to go toward the building of an Alumni Hall, that the money was employed in the completion of Memorial Hall, and that the newly erected portion of that...
...only two men whom the action can harm, and in so far as it harms them it is wrong (vide Locke). Now, if we can prove that it actually produces more pleasure than pain in the long run, or, in other words, that it produces less harm than good towards these two, we shall be justified in the action...
...truth to the Faculty suffers yet another moral injury, for, seeing himself suffering for the same thing for which others escape scot-free, he loses his sense of immutable justice, and regards himself as a wronged person, which state, I suppose, no one will deny, is unfavorable to good morals...
...Boston University Beacon makes its bow before the college world. The paper is large, and the matter rather heavy, but good on the whole. We find in it an interesting account of the invention of a new process of telegraphy. Professor Bell, of Boston University, is the inventor, and "he is able to transmit the sounds of the human voice by means of induced vibrations in an electric current. The pitch and quality of the voice and the sounds of the vowels are transmitted perfectly, and part of the consonants are so distinct as to be easily recognizable. The Professor...
...There can be no doubt that both Oxford and Cambridge would be able to get up two good crews, if they liked, and would stand the greatest possible chance of being first and second respectively, in an event the like of which has never been seen, and is not likely to be seen again...