Word: said
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...meeting of the members of the University hockey squad held last night at the Varsity Club Coach Winsor '02 announced a temporary cut in the squad, but said that all men not retained during the recess will be given a further trial in January. The following men have been retained: forwards-Duncan, Fraser-Campbell, Gardner, Hicks, Hornblower, Kirkland, Leslie, Rice, Whidden, Wigglesworth; coverpoints-G. . G. Browne, Foster, Houston; points-Blackall, Huntington, Paul; goals-C. N. Browne, Chadwick, Fahnestock, Smart...
...judges awarded the medal to C. S. Collier '11, but stated that H. B. Ehrmann '12 was a very close second; and awarded to him honorable mention. Collier won the debate on the substance of his speech, everything that he said having a close relation to the question at hand. His speech was well-presented, but he was surpassed in this by Ehrmann, who earned his position not so much on the subject-matter as on the way in which it was presented. Although the other speakers showed care in preparation, the work of Collier and Ehrmann easily excelled...
Turning then to the main part of the lecture, Mr. Mansfield said that it is the system of taxation which has caused the great amount of really unjust criticism. In order to maintain education, religion, and an the efficient government the natives have been taxed forty hours of work per month, for which they were paid the usual wages. In enforcing this there naturally have been isolated instances of cruelty and oppression, but it was a false report on the part of the British Consul of the Congo Free State that gave rise to the late accusations of misrule...
...former is the kind that is of the greatest interest to men. Laws decrease legal liberty but increase real liberty. There are also two kinds of rights: legal and moral; but there are no such things as inalienable rights as maintained by Jefferson, Mill and George. Abraham Lincoln said: "No man has a right to do wrong." Equality is an equal distribution of wealth among the classes of society, and the equal distribution of the means of consumption is desirable. Self-interest and intelligence are the most prevalent useful qualities in human nature; the former should be used to impel...
...introducing President Garfield, President Lowell spoke as follows: "It has been said that every man ought to have a vocation and an avocation, but I know of a man who has four vocations, and made a success of each of them. Our guest of the evening has been a lawyer, a reformer in public life, an educator, and a college president; and he has done all of these with singular success, and in a way to excite the admiration of all who know him. I think he might speak with authority upon each of the four vocations I have mentioned...