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Even though the sentence was suspended, the fine appears extraordinarily heavy in comparison with a mere ducking. And not only does it appear unjustly heavy but totally inefficient. For the fiery dame, comparatively, came in to court like a lamb and went out like a lion. While a ducking, if it could have been had, might have dampened her spirits, the only final way of quelling her inconquerable tongue would be to administer the medicine of a certain doctor in Shaw's play. "The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife". It will be remembered that this learned physician unloosed...
...letter about the singing of "Johnny Harvard" a song which glorifies Drink at the Harvard-Oxford Debate, you say: "A ban now on all such jolly old songs would be much like the absurd ban on the teaching of German in this country during the War." Should not the comparison be however, with the singling, during the War, of a song to glorify Germany and I think you would hardly have approved of that, Let us think straight. DRLCRVARR KINO...
...remain in a hopeless muddle. The recent discussion of the problem in Symphony Hall brought out, among other things, the value of accurate statistics. But, unfortunately, these statistics so far have been concerned with the amount of reparations which Germany has already paid. These, after all, are small in comparison with the total bill--even counting in all the cows and swarms of bees at their maximum market value. The question to be determined is the exact amount which she is capable of paying, in the opinion of the best economic experts of the day. Statistics such as these would...
...page book is written with characteristic Lloyd Georgian vigor and is full of sonorous metaphor. The Ruhr gets attention. Says he: "If Poincaré is out for reparation, his policy will inevitably fail in comparison with that which he so rashly threw over; but if he is out for trouble it has been a great success and in the future it will be an even greater triumph for his statesmanship. The permanent garrison in the Ruhr has possibilities of mischief which it does not require any special vision to foresee...
Total registration for Harvard University at the end of the fourth day of registration is 6445, in comparison with 6075 last year