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Steamer Westphalia was seriously damaged by collision with an unknown steamer off Beachy Head yesterday morning. No lives lost...
Laundry bundle left at Drury's, address unknown. Owner please call...
...trial of Arabi. Sir Edward Malet announces that the trial will not proceed unless the accused are defended by English counsel, while the Egyptian ministry responds that it will not be responsible for the government of the country if the English counsel introduces a method of procedure unknown to Egyptian courts...
...practice of hazing is not new. Transported from the English university, it has in the American college attained to a virulence, even if not to a system, unknown in its original home. If fagging - a custom of which Dr. Arnold of Rugby approved - is not its parent, it is at least its sister evil, since both spring from the propensity of tyranny on the part of the older and stronger over the younger and weaker. But these ancient customs may be esteemed most honorable to the freshman in comparison with the indignities and barbarities which are at the present time...
...sign or hazing a freshman, serves to weaken the force of the custom. Many colleges thus treat their members, and the members so regard themselves. The difficulty, however, in this remedy lies in the fact that cases of hazing may be perpetrated night after night and yet remain unknown to the officers of the law. It is not often that a freshman can detect his persecutors, and could be detect them, it is even less often that he would divulge their names. A method, however, which has stopped the practice in a leading college is both simpler and more reasonable...