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...resolutions voiced the sentiment of the college in regarding the faculty's action as inconsistent with their own statements in approval of the past conduct of the nine, as unwise in tending to repress college spirit, and, by the substitute offered, class games, to revive class spirit, now nearly extinct, and as unwarrantable in view of the fact that the "new system" at Amherst transfers the control of the students' disposition of time, money and energy from the faculty to the students themselves. The resolutions conclude with a request to the faculty not to persist in a course that will...
FOREIGN.Parnell will probably soon come to an open rupture with the Fenian wing of the Land League on account of his conciliatory attitude toward the government. An extraordinary bill to repress crime was yesterday introduced in the House of Commons. The funeral of Lord Cavendish took place yesterday, attended by a large crowd of notables, including Gladstone. Further attempts are being made to discover the assassins, and several arrests have been made on suspicion. Mr. Trevelyan, the new chief secretary, has arrived in Dublin...
...outside did not abate; I wondered if the occupants of the other rooms did not hear it. Suddenly it ceased, and there was a knock at the door. That knock broke sharply across my nerves; I felt a horrible sensation of ghostly terror which I tried in vain to repress. I did not rise; I motioned to Steve to answer the summons. He smiles quietly, - even contemptuously, I thought, - and opened the door. There was no living person in sight. But that mocking laugh broke out again...
...struggling to repress his cruel glee...
...desk was not able even to conjecture the motives that could have influenced the people in town to repress such valuable information...