Word: casus
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...melancholy fate of the Charleston College bell naturally leads us to investigate the situation of our own academical tintinnabulum. We have been having some chilly nights of late, and we are forced to believe that the authorities have rather neglected the casus belli, - case of our own bell. If we may be pardoned for interference in a matter which, strictly speaking, is none of our business, we would suggest that a proctor be delegated to sit up nights with the bell, and see that it does not throw of its bed clothes. Nay, further, we would be pleased to start...
...unless it be for the reason that as the authority to govern in the Hall has been deputed to them, they feel bound to exercise it on the student, rather than take what would appear to rational beings to be the most natural course, namely, to remove the casus belli by prohibiting visitors from Memorial Hall during meal-time...