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...imprudent and unscrupulous liberty; if it be the work of a student, which we sincerely trust it is not, we blush with shame to think that one of our number can be guilty of an act so small, so utterly beneath contempt, and, worse than all, so morally wrong. The writer of the signature may have thought that he was perpetrating a huge joke in thus attempting to deceive whoever might look over the register; but a short residence among us would soon teach him that such an act is not funny; it is fresh...
...friends may consider his case to be, has been recently illustrated by the very events which indirectly led to the complication of a court trial, and the student whose testimony figured somewhat in the late trial was exempt from criticism by those who are usually disposed to shield wrong doing at all hazards, only because of his uniformly courteous bearing towards his fellow students, the high respect which his general course in college has gained for him, and because his testimony was not volunteered, but was given in the course of ordinary conversation at the table...
...Chapel. The sermon was upon the death of spiritual life. Many men who have come to a low degree of righteousness are characterized by bestiality and all the lower forms of vice, but there is a still larger class who have lost all power to distinguish between right and wrong in matters that are considered generally of very little moment; but this insensibility to spiritual things is fully as bad as is that which is popularly called vice...
...wine, for they were brought up under an old regime, but there is no excuse for a young man who drinks. After dwelling upon the injurious effects of alcohol upon the heart, and so on the whole organism, the desirability of "no-license" was advocated, for it must be wrong to license the sale of any commodity which produces decay of the body and misery to the mind...
...enormity of the offence. Smoking was prohibited "unless permitted by the President, with the consent of parents and guardians, and on good reason first given by a physician." Money was very scarce in those days and a frequent delinquent who had the ill-luck to be detected in his wrong-doing would soon find himself impoverished. Indeed ready cash was so difficult to attain that the term bills were often paid in kind, butter, cheese, fruit, etc., being the commodities offered in exchange for education...