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...meal the cold northeast wind has blown in and caused those at the west end of the hall either to shiver as they ate, or else wear their hats and overcoats. It is an imposition on the students thus carelessly to subject them to such cold draughts as an east wind brings through so large an opening. It would seem as if some temporary covering might be furnished the inside o the window while the work was being carried on. If no shelter could have been rigged, whey did they not wait till the summer vacation, or at least till...
...EAST WIND...
...first speaker for Yale, said: "The income tax law of 1894 was an unnecessary revenue measure. We do not oppose an ideal tax, but the income tax law was passed to meet a deficit which should have been met by economy. It was sectional, too; an attack on the east by the west and the south. The income tax law of 1894 was vicious as a practical measure and violates every principle upon which a genuine income tax is based. The law was an attack of socialists and populists upon capital. It is the old story of debt confiscation...
...HAVEN, CONN., April 30. - Word has been received from the University of California athletic team that they will not reach the East in time to participate in the annual invitation games of the Yale Track Athletic Association here next Saturday. They will meet the University of Pennsylvania at New York...
...merchants, not soldiers. There is no system in the army, and the officers are thoroughly corrupt. The greater part of the funds appropriated for modern fortifications and ordnance has gone into the pockets of the mandarins. The outcome was almost self-evident to those who understood affairs in the East. It is not the Chinese soldier who is at fault, but the whole theory of the government. The Chinese have many of the traits to make good soldiers; they are more like us than we imagine...