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...playing for an indefinite length of time, simply because the "roughs" insisted upon presenting themselves as spectators of the games. We offer the Cornell men our most sincere sympathy; and as we notice a complaint in the same article of the inefficiency of the Ithaca police-force, we cannot forbear to suggest that in Cambridge officials might be found against whom the charge of lack of rigor could never be preferred...
...powers, but it can be made a powerful auxiliary to them, and most of our eminent lawyers are noted for their powers of recollection. The desirability of this faculty is, indeed, so evident, that it hardly requires illustration from the cases of physicians, preachers, and literary men. I cannot forbear, however, a passing allusion to the case of Sir Walter Scott, whose wonderful and almost unbounded memory, more than any other quality, was the foundation of his fame and success as an historical novelist...