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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...first eight of the Pi Eta from '80 are: W. H. Alley, G. Bement, A. F. Breed, W. W. Gooch, E. H. Hastings, C. H. Pew, J. D. Redding, F. M. Smith...
SENIOR FORENSICS. First Section. In the punishment of crime is there any object to be aimed at except the prevention of crime? References: Baccaria (des Delits et Peines), Bentham's Theory of Legislation, Livingston's Criminal Jurisprudence (introduction to La Code), Rantoul's speeches on Capital Punishment, Dymond's Elements of Morality, and other treatises on moral philosophy, passim. Time, first Tuesday in March...
Motley's abilities were well known to his associates. At one of the college exhibitions he spoke an essay on Goethe which attracted much attention; and the Phi Beta Kappa Society, which then admitted only the first sixteen scholars of each class, extended its rules in order to include...
...Christmas recess has been tried now for two years, and we hope that the Faculty are ready to come back to the full two weeks. The impracticability of really beginning the term on Friday has, it seems to us, been fully demonstrated. In the first place, the students do not get back; the temptation to put off one's return to college until the beginning of the next week is more than average flesh and blood can resist. In the second place, the instructors do not hold their recitations, or, if they do, only for a few moments...
...first of the series of lectures arranged by the S. Paul's Society was given last Tuesday evening by the Rt. Rev. Benjamin H. Paddock, in Christ Church. The attendance was large, and the number of students there was noticeably greater than on former occasions of the same kind. The next lecture of the course is to be given next Tuesday evening, at the same time and place, by the Rev. E. A. Washburn, Rector of Calvary Church, New York...