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Harvard, with other institutions, has the imperfection of not being perfect, it makes mistakes, it often leaves undone what it ought to have done, as witness the wholesome and vivifying border warfare carried on by its graduates with their alma matters. But first, last and always, Harvard teaches its men their right to examine for themselves asserted facts, and thereby teaches them the dignity of the individual. It warns against the tyranny of dogma with its attendant loss of liberty. If any doubt the fruits of this, let them regard the records of Harvard men in all departments...
...Four treaties to prevent liquor smuggling: three of them with 1) Panama, 2) France, 3) the Netherlands; one regarding border cooperation with Canada, with Great Britain...
...news at that, yet worth an idle hour or two. Mr. Ray disports himself as the watery youth whose mother makes him take tonics. He is snatched from her protecting clutches by circumstance and thrust into the midst of a dance hall and ranch-grabbing plot over the Mexican border. Fifty or 60 fights and a dynamited dam suffice to make...
General Wu received the travelers most courteously and insisted on giving them angered escort for the first part of their journey by cart. The escort left them at the border of the province of Honau? which at that was infested with bandits, and the party passed safely in the peaceful province of Shensi...
...religion of high morality grew and waxed great in the border country. But, as the years passed, the independence of the Sikhs aroused the jealousy of Akbar the Great and his Imperial Muhammadan successors,* until finally a Sikh ruler, in self-protection, was forced to add militarism to the Sikh code. His name was Govind Singh. He instituted the ceremonial of baptism. When a mature Sikh youth became baptized, he added Singh (Lion) to his name-"John Jones" became "John Jones, Lion." From baptism, the youth must wear the five "K"s: 1) kes-uncut hair of the whole body...