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...question having arisen in the Inns of court concerning the comparative ballistic merits of Plaintiff and Defendant, Counsel were chosen for each party, and Hearing arranged before the Justices. For, saith Hengham, c. J. "Qui fac. per alium," &c. Whereupon Lord Coke, "This, &c., explaineth, in sooth, &c. itself, &c." Quod Walmsley, J., concessit; and so it is frequently said in the books. And it was agreed by Hann, "one of the new Sergeants," for the defendant, to abide by the judgement of their Honours sin' appell.' sive referend.' sive recall.' &c. (Hann: The action lieth. Logan: The action lieth...
...helps to retain-by virtue of its emphasizing influence-that element of genius in each man which he may possess; it helps each one of us to retain that simple interest in the world and its beauty, in things unconnected with ends, which may serve to rest and sooth us all through life and may keep for us that unconcern, that charming insouciance, which is the glory of the child and the artist...
...suggestion was offered in our columns Friday by a freshman correspondent, tending towards the uprooting of the university at large and the disruption of the college proper - in sooth, a very anarchical proposition. It was in fact nothing more nor less than a partial abandonment of the one time-honored "freshman elective" now spared to us. First in the series of changes came the abolition of the May-Day party in which we all used so to rejoice, then followed other deep-seated and revolutionary reforms, including the suppression of the horrible rites of Bloody Monday Night...
...claim that our freshmen could have won the series had they played the requisite number of games; they probably could not have won. But what we protest against, is the cool way in which Yale, '88, has broken written agreements, and refused to play the series out, because, for sooth, they did not care to take the time and trouble ! As for the News' claim that the freshman championship was acknowledged to be lost by Harvard, '88, quoting a letter to that effect, no one who had read the letter in question from an untiased standpoint could have helped seeing...
...must be a compromise for some one. The ridiculous ideas of the Harvard faculty about gate-money and fences are well known. Their idea is to cause all expense to be borne by the wealthier students, who can afford to subscribe to the maintenance of athletics. This for sooth brings about a spirit of democracy! Harvard democracy we had better call it. The seventh resolution caps the climax. Our patience has already been sorely tried, but the faculty have carefully kept the heaviest blow for the last. Our dear friend Columbia, with whom our experiences have been so pleasant...