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...order that the members of N. H. 6 may know the price of a "dissection cat," it may be stated that Prof. Burt G. Wilder, now lecturing at Bowdoin College, advertises that he wishes to obtain "cats, and occasionally kittens," for dissection or experiment, and that twenty cents will be paid for a full-grown cat. The cats, he explains, are killed with chloroform, or while under its influence, and never suffer any pain, making this a merciful way of disposing of superfluous animals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/20/1883 | See Source »

...their income, and his conversation is all of the Lord Dundreary style. This is just what he said to a young lady friend in my hearing within a fortnight. He sat with one knee tightly held in his clasped fingers: "Do-eh-er-like-er-music? I-eh-ye-know-eh-like-er-music-eh-ye-know." It is said these people in English drawing-rooms know a great lot on all manner of subjects, and that what they know they know thoroughly; but I see no outcome - no result. Indeed, I know a score of Oxford fellows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/13/1883 | See Source »

...little value to the honor of a student who is accused of a misdemeanor, and that they are content to reason from effects to causes and motives without regard to the man's word. No man in college was more trusted and respected than Mr. S., and those who know him know that he would not be guilty of a dishonest act such as the faculty have practically convicted him of. To obey the requirements of the sentence inflicted upon him is tacitly to admit his guilt. He has shown his manhood by refusing to submit, preferring to sever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/12/1883 | See Source »

...regretted that more intimate relations do not exist between the faculty and the students, if for nothing else, in order that the latter might know whether or not they err in supposing, as many do, that the faculty do not trust the honor of the students, and that their policy is to sacrifice the slight offender or even the innocent transgressor that the greater but undetected wrong-doers may see and tremble...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/12/1883 | See Source »

...matter, whether they desire the new album or not, they will assist the committee in their work far more than they can appreciate. Any one desiring to subscribe to the album, who has not already handed in a deposit of $5, will please do so at once. We must know by the end of the week whether the class is to have a heliotype album...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENIOR CLASS PHOTOGRAPHS - HELIOTYPE ALBUMS. | 2/12/1883 | See Source »