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Perhaps there is another way, besides literary theft, to account for the coincidences. The scientists may continue their studies, and perhaps uncover a new Ossian scandal; but meanwhile it is safe to make what conjectures our imaginations suggest. The Hebrew Adam tasted forbidden fruit to gain knowledge; the Sumerian Adapa did likewise; the temptation in each case involved a woman; both were driven out of their paradises in the Euphrates Valley to toil in unproductive fields; finally the descendants of both were chastened by a flood which wiped out all but the worthy. In fine, it might seem almost reasonable...
Since the college has forbidden students to drive or park their cars in the Yard, men have been leaving them on Massachusetts avenue and adjoining side streets. Because of this, the traffic is nearly always blocked on Quincy, Linden and Holyoke streets, in direct violation of the fire department rules. Complaints have also been made that cars are parked so as to block private drive-ways...
...opposite cells for a week. For 23 hours a day they are to be fastened in their cells with an ankle chain, and for the 24th hour are to take exercise on the upper deck, secured by a ball and chain. During their solitary confinement they will be forbidden to speak, but may talk during their hour of exercise. At the end of the week, each man is to be awarded $125, or, if one drops out, the survivor will receive...
...such a thought is not beyond the limits of sense. The "short stem that fumes beneath the nose"--will it cease to be a companion, eulogized in song and story, and become merely an emblem of duty, coldly disregarded by genius and fool alike? What of the cigarette, the forbidden fruit--and so the more delightful--of school days, the mental enemy and physical friend of college years? What will be the end of the cigar--the vicious Invincible without which no Oral Examination is complete--the mild, light brown ten-centers, not to consume one of which...
...Notice: No student shall allow his taper to burn later than the sixth mark after the going down of the sun. The rounding of tabors, laragytes, zithers, calipantas, tom-toms, or other musical instruments, is forbidden during the noon and vesper hours of contemplation...