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...Jersey Legislature, on Thursday, April 19, a bill to punish hazing in colleges was defeated. This action was taken on the recommenertion of the presidents of Princeton and Rutgers colleges, who said that they preferred to enforce the college rules against hazing, and that the statute laws already covered hazing cases...
...legislation which is opposed by the minority party. (c) A quorum cannot be provided from the minority by fining members who refuse to vote: for: 1. The House cannot waste more time in disciplining members. 2. The House cannot delegate to the Speaker the power to punish members. (d) There is no other alternative...
sciences. When the state and the church became distinct, the latter remained all-powerful for a long time. Ecclesiastical officials claimed for members of their brotherhood immunity from the ordinary duties of citizenship. In England the clergy possessed the right to punish for crime all accused persons who could prove their right to the "benefit of the clergy" by reading a passage from the Bible. As late as the sixteenth century, a clerk in orders could be only branded for murder. The well-known story of Becket's struggle against Henry shows the power that the church possessed...
...made rules generously. The rules were written in Latin, and each student had to make his own copy in a fair hand. Some of the rules of 1743 were read. Students were not allowed to sell each other articles of more than on shilling's value. Most of the punishments were by fines. Five shillings was the penalty for lying. Tutors were requested frequently to visit the students in their chambers after nine o'clock in the evening to quicken their attention to their studies. If any rum or brandy was found in a student's room...
...their trust in "Javeh," who would deliver them from their danger. Actually, the Assyrian King met with some disaster which forced him to return home. It was then supposed that this was owing to the direct intervention of Jalweh. The prophets said that the Assyrian invasions were to punish the Jews for their idolatry, but the invaders themselves had no such idea. The transportation of the Jews to Babylon was not a punishment, but was part of the general plicy of the Assyrian Kings. Isaiah preached reformation to the people and met with opposition, not because of his ideas...