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...implications of such a condition lie far deeper than the Herald would suggest. Looking to their elders for examples of an acceptable code of ethics, the offending undergraduate officials find on one side shameless dishonesty and on the other helpless complacency. Their natural reaction is to regard graft as a legitimate profit, the assumed right of officialdom. The immediate consequence of such an attitude firmly established in the minds of these college men becomes tragically obvious when one considers that they are destined to fill responsible positions in the world. There is probably need for some such disciplinary action...
...wife and his son, Horace Jr., 22, clasped hands on the rear seat of their automobile in a tightly closed garage until asphyxiated by carbon monoxide from the exhaust. For 32 years the Colemans had been Quaker missionaries in Japan. They had steeped themselves in Japanese Bushido, the ethical code of the samurai which prescribes harakiri for those facing shame. Learning that Clara B. McGill, a destitute young girl whom the Colemans had sheltered, had made a complaint that Horace Coleman Jr. had betrayed her, they left a note: "This way accords with our peculiar ideas in cases where conditions...
...Early telegraph operators had a code for conversational asides on the wire...
...code of numerical symbols originated in 1879 by the late Walter P. Phillips, head of the original United Press, is still in use. But the numbers most commonly used-"30," "73" and "95'' ("urgent") do not appear...
Stiff, unexpected Chinese resistance to the Japanese drive (which last week had been held up at Shanghai for exactly a month) was probably the factor that made Japanese Generals and Admirals uneasiest. Once in battle, a Japanese samurai ("two-sworded man") is barred by the Samurai Code from calling for help. A samurai is Lieut.-General Uyeda, Japanese military commander at Shanghai last week. When he and his army got utterly to the end of their rope, Samurai Uyeda did not call for help. But his good friend Admiral Nomura called and Tokyo sent help, sent enough troops to double...