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...judges but mere jurymen, how in the name of common sense is the conviction of any student to be secured? You say, "take measures that will compel students to testify under penalty of expulsion." But to say nothing of the inquisitorial character of such a proceeding, two very serious difficulties stand in the way which the law escapes, and which, if they existed in law, would make almost all attempts to enforce law a farce...
...communications called forth by Mr. Laughlin's lecture need little comment. Whether the discussion be profitable, or not, it serves as a proof that there is serious thinking done in Cambridge - the daily papers to the contrary, notwithstanding. We realize this hot-headedness is ever attendant on religious and political altercation, but we deprecate the extreme dogmatic force into which our correspondents have allowed themselves to be betrayed. We close the discussion here in order that our correspondents may not come to blows...
...first act, leaving the Misses Daffodil in love with Rev. Milkweed and Cholmondeley, and one of them engaged to the anything but consumptive John Harvard. The voices were all good, especially Harvard's; the acting of Stubbs excellent; the two heroines were sweet enough to eat. Then came a serious break in the play - the entree...
...Lampy" shows his disapproval of certain acts on the part of our authorities is well adapted to the lessening of such acts, for the irony of the jester - whose person always is held sacred - does more to show dictatorial acts in their right colors than double the amount of serious writing. It is a pity, however, that anything was said in the last issue about the college Faculty, the proper target of college humor. But on the other hand, this deficiency was more than counter-balanced by the traces of Puck-ian humor discernable here and there. Especially...
...said club has been allowed to drop, and the rapidity with which curiosity as regards it has evaporated would seem to prove the little interest in it, though there is, I think, deep interest below the surface of all the stumbling-blocks that impede its supporters. The most serious is, as I pointed out in a previous letter, the absence of any special reason strong enough to supply motive power to keep the club going. Though there are half a hundred reasons for desiring the club, no one of them is sufficiently important to become the one prominent motive...