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...remarkable that in a college where modern literatures are so eagerly studied, so little attention should be paid to those of Greece and Rome. This neglect is partly due to the worthless utilitarian protest that we should study only things which we can sensibly use in our life, and partly because of the undergraduate belief that in Harvard the study of the classics is not made worth while...
...rather conventional love story follows, with the merchant Venturewell, as father, Jasper Merrythought, his apprentice, and his daughter Luce, as lovers, and Humphrey, as the worthless but favored suitor...
Saturday morning a man who gave his name as A. L. Lambert of Louisville, Kentucky, was arrested on suspicion in Ridgely Hall. It was found later that he was a sneak theif who had been passing worthless checks in the dormitories for the past six months, and that he had stolen various articles from the suites. All the property has been pawned, and the recovery is probable...
Lambert has also done a great deal of petty thieving in New Haven. He will be brought to trial in Cambridge shortly after March 19, on the change of passing worthless checks, and later will probably be tried on other charges...
Students are hereby warned against the man who has recently been entering and taking articles from College rooms and passing worthless checks. He enters rooms boldly on the pretence of leaving a note for the occupant. If discovered he usually pretends to be looking for the occupant's room-mate, and endeavors to have a check cashed on the ground that he himself is a friend of the absent occupant. Recently he has been entering rooms during the morning lecture hours and between 6 and 7 o'clock in the evening, having stolen in all over a thousand dollar...