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...causes leading up to this, date back as far as July, 1881, when the Academica published an article entitled "The Rector's Case," setting forth nineteen causes of complaint against Thomas Vickers, any one of which, if established, was sufficient to show his unfitness for the rectorship. In alarm Vickers rushed into contemporaneous print, and accused students, alumni, directors, members of the faculty, and citizens, of conspiring to break down his reputation and destroy the university. Receiving an intimation that the beseigers were about to lay certain petitions before the directorate, asking for an investigation into the consul's management...
...says there are good reasons for a new trial, and he proposes to show that when the popular feeling has died away...
...guys you and fools you, you aint got no show...
...Boston, the perennial Denman Thompson appears as Joshua Whitcomb. The house will be crowded at every performance, as is the wont whenever Mr. Thompson presents his laughable characterization of the New England farmer. Season after season he "continues to delight crowded audiences," as the show bill says, until it has become a wonder in the theatrical world, that a piece of such trifling character, or rather a conglomeration of such commonplace incidents, should meet with such uninterrupted success...
Hawley, through his attorneys, filed the necessary papers asking for an alternative mandate requiring the faculty to show cause why he was denied admission, or else permit him to enter college. This complaint was afterward amended, wherein the plaintiff alleged that he was excluded upon the ground of his refusal to take the obligation prescribed. The faculty based their defence on the claim that the board of trustees and the faculty had the right to enact and enforce rules, prohibiting the existence of Greek-letter societies in their college. The plaintiff claimed that the rule in question was one that...