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...Suppose this psychic sense should be developed by its rise, until everyone is at once psychically powerful and similarly receptive. The concentrated "will" of fifty students would seen drive the boldest professor from the platform, no one would receive less than "A" in any of his courses. The night watchman has only to be "wished" somewhere else, to make burglary mere child's play And so it goes. The fate of the world is easy to see. Let us therefore nip the evil in the bud; let it be unlawful to wish, will, think, agitate, or otherwise employ the human...
...being improved without reference to acts of the Massachusetts legislature, and that there, in the very citadel of strongfortism, we might blushingly exert our feeble strentht. A sing intimated that the door was locked for the day. We were interrupted in the act of opening a window by the watchman placed there they Comptroller to prevent the use by the little fellows for he building designed for them. This wothy opined that the Comptroller desired his holiday as much as we. It would thus appear to be the conviction of the anthorities that freshmen, unless tirelessly supervised, will...
...Widener Library there is now on exhibition a notable collection, formerly owned by Mr. Widener, of first editions, manuscripts, and letters of the British romantic poets, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Lord Byron. Two very rare and much sought after books in the show-cases are Coleridge's "The Watchman" and "The Friend," little magazines which are interesting to compare with our modern journals. A first edition of the "State man's Manual," with numerous corrections and notes in Coleridge's autograph, is one of the prizes of the collection. Beside these rare editions are various manuscripts, a number of portraits...
...fire broke out in the tailoring shop in the rear of the third floor of the Harvard Co-operative Society, gutting the entire attic and most of the third floor before the Cambridge Fire Department succeeded in getting the blaze in hand. Flames were first discovered by the watchman, who turned in a first alarm at 3.27 o'clock. This failed to work and it was not until the whole roof was ablaze that engines arrived on the scene. Three-quarters of an hour was spent before the flames were controlled, and in that time the roof had completely gone...
Probably the damage would have been slightly less, had not the Yard watchman, who was running to send in the alarm, been mistaken for a firebug by a Radio School guard, who held him up as he was running to the box. The necessary explanations delayed the calling of the fire department for a short time...