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...members of the Ivy Committee of Yale's class of '96, have made public what will undoubtedly prove a happy solution of the trouble engendered by the planting of the slip of ivy from the grave of Robert Lee on the Yale campus and its subsequent theft during the summer...
...members of the Ivy Committee, have been in correspondence over the theft of the ivy since it became known and have decided to plant another of the several slips from General Lee's grave which were originally sent and also on a proposition of Wallace Bruce '67, a slip from the grave of Theodore Winthrop. the poet and writer, who was one of the first Yale officers to meet death in the Union army. The planting of the ivies will be made a notable event and the plan of having Ex-Governor Chamberlain, of South Carolina, deliver the oration...
...Disinterested Theft. John Albert Macy...
...lecture began with quotations of figures from the last census. It divided crime, in the legal sense, into crimes against government, society, property, person, and crime on the high seas. Of these, fully 50 per cent are committed against property, chiefly in the form of theft. It was also shown that criminals in the United States are largely of foreign extraction. They are of all degrees of education, including college bred...
...impossible to find terms strong enough to condemn the theft of the Louisburg Cross from the University Library. Whether the person who committed the act was aware of the peculiar value of the cross, or not, the offence is an unpardonable one, and the penalty, in case the thief should be discovered, ought to be severe. Supposing, what is by no means certain, that the act was committed by a student, it will reflect seriously upon the University if many days are allowed to pass without either the return of the cross or the apprehension of the man who took...