Word: thefts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...partake of pig. Justice Overdo enters, still preserving his incognito, and the extravagant Cokes begins to buy up all the toys and ginger-bread at the fair. He has his purse cut by Edgworth while Nightingale creates a diversion by ballad singing, and Justice Overdo, suspected of the theft, is given into custody. The Puritanical Busy then tries to seize Leatherhead's toys on the ground that they are "idols" which must be "torn down," and is arrested for his pains...
Self-help or self-assertion of right, which has not yet entirely disappeared from our systems of law, was a fundamental principle of ancient law. In cases of theft or adultery, an individual was allowed to kill the offender if he could catch him, but if not caught the case had to be referred to trial. Persons who claimed lost property, had the right of taking possession of the property, and justifying their possession afterwards. Ancient law did not depend so much on moral right and claim, as upon the assertion of individual interests...
There are two ways of looking at the recent Med. Fac. incident. We may consider it as a mere prank and totally different from real house-breaking and theft. If so, we should give the incident no further attention. Or we may consider it as something totally unworthy of a member of our community, as an affront to some of the best phases of the life of that community, and as an insult to the memory of one of our truest graduates. If so, we should uproot the evil, showing no mercy...
...time, but the blaze was discovered by people passing to a lecture and an alarm was sent in. The fire was small, however, and was extinguished before the arrival of the engine company. Except for the ruining of several articles of furniture by chemicals and the theft of some other property, the loss was small. The cause of the fire is supposed to have been a burning cigarette stub thrown carelessly among some sofa-pillows...
...altogether too tolerant of the Cambridge small boy. There is only one thing to do: Keep him off the University grounds. Then, when he is caught red-handed in a theft, turn him over to the police to be made an example of. This is the advice of the police themselves. The recent success of shutting this little pest out of Yard concerts, only shows how unnecessarily long suffering we have been. UNDERGRADUATE...