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Yesterday afternoon in the chemical laboratory J. F. McJennett '98 was seriously cut about the wrist by an explosion of chemicals. He was heating a wrong combination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/9/1894 | See Source »

...whom is assigned to some particular seat. The majority have been to the game before and have become accustomed to finding their places on one side or the other. If a change were made it is felt that there would surely be some persons who would start in the wrong way and probably in the crowding and pushing not a few would pass the wrong gate, and cause no end of trouble to the ushers and gate-keepers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/7/1894 | See Source »

...seems all the greater pity that there should be any abuse of privileges. In almost every such course there are some men who will go out of their way to argue a point with the instructor even when it seems that they must know they are in the wrong. While these little off-hand debates may be a source of the greatest pleasure to the men who seek to promote them, they are generally far from such to the class as a whole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/3/1894 | See Source »

Philosophers have said that the existence of pain and wrong is hard to reconcile with the idea of a God of love. In fact, ever since men began to seek for truth this matter has been the burden of their thought. The result has usually been that in order to defend the infinity of God's goodness they have had to admit that his power was finite. This was the position of John Stuart Mill, - the Manichaean view, though Mr. Mill did not go so far as to personify evil. The Calvinistic view is really nearer to modern thought, when...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Fiske's Lecture. | 10/30/1894 | See Source »

...course is little short of absurd. In History 13, for example, it is carried so far that each student is required to pay a small fee to meet the expense of the elaborate printing necessary for the course. Now the amount is small, but the principle seems wholly wrong, for certainly the ideal way of managing a course, at least from the student's point of view, is not to make it as formal as possible, but rather to let the management be as simple as is practicable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/29/1894 | See Source »

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