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...unavoidable. Live now in the fear of that tribunal, --not an abject fear, because independence is an indispensable quality in the honorable man. There is an admirable phrase in the Declaration of Independence, a document which it was the good fashion for the boys of my time to commit to memory. I doubt if that fashion still obtains. Some of our public action looks as if it did not. "When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers...
...fire and Joe Easter, the fire hanging back just far enough to make an impressive setting for some sterling heroics by Joe when he catches up. Joe has been cleaned out by tricky Indians and now offers 1) to save his good friend Prescott from foolish Alverna; 2) to commit suicide. After a protracted love-feast, the two men ship Alverna back to Minneapolis, and splendid Joe then pretends to get drunk so that Prescott will see what a mistake it would be to take him to New York and introduce him to cultured friends...
Wary, Japanese men have for centuries not infrequently refused to marry "Hinuma girls." Despondent, such maidens often commit suicide if they remain unmarried until 20 years of age- the traditional limit after which irredeemable spinsterhood sets...
...predilection of the Japanese for this vigorous act was well shown last week, when a new Japanese cinema drama was released in which 47 of the characters commit hara-kiri to the delight of movie fans...
Without wishing to commit myself to the cause of materialism versus spiritualism, I do, nevertheless wish to take exception to some of the remarks made in Tuesday's issue by that zealous crusader who deplores that fact that certain undergraduates, "hypocrites, heathens and one-cylinder Shaws," have become so spiritually warped that they are raising "their puny, babbling voices demanding that God be sold for a gymnasium...