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There is trouble at the Naval Academy Annapolis. The cadet officers of the batallion of midshipmen have resigned, and none of the first and second classes will accept these positions. The third and fourth classes are either incompetent or afraid to accept them. Most of the first-class have been put on board the Santee under arrest. The trouble grew out of charges that a cadet officer had exposed the contents of examination papers...
This story did not originate at Harvard: One day not long ago a lawyer was arguing a case before the Supreme Court, and made use of the word "precedent," pronouncing it, however, with the accent on the second syllable, thus, "pre-ce-dent." Pretty soon he used the word again, and this time he gave the accent as it is usually given, on the first syllable. Justice Woods, who sits next to Justice Gray, noticing this variation in the lawyer's pronounciation, whispered to Justice Gray, "He pronounced it right the first time." Whereupon Justice Gray said, "What college were...
...eleventh century were the main causes of this. Two classes of minds at this time divided the church - the pious, devout belivers (such as St. Bernard), who needed no reasons for their faith, and the polemic speculative divine, (such as Abelard), who wished to make theology rational. Second, the system of conferring degrees, after appropriate trials. These were at first simply a license to teach. Third, the formal organization of the primitive university. Europe was unsettled; even in the capitals, the civil power was often unhinged. Wherever multitudes came together there was manifested a spirit of turbulence. The universities often...
...tedious and painful, and sharp pains go shooting through it. This is caused by the checking of the circulation, and although the effort made is ten times that of raising a dumb-bell, still the tissue lost in the first movement is not renewed as it is in the second, and consequently not so much benefit is derived from it as from the latter. It is of prime importance to use weights proportioned to one's strength, neither too large nor too small, but of medium size...
Waldon, the captain of Yale's '81 nine, is in the Law School and will play his old position of second base in the spring...