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...Order", that famous precept which swept Calvin Coolidge from the office of a well-known politician to the vice-presidency of a great world power, is tottering on the edge of a precipice. When the edict was first issued from beneath the golden dome on Beacon Hill the populace rose as one man to back up their popular leader; and for nearly three years "Law and Order" has been a sort of sub-motto for the Commonwealth...
Life in Budapest at present is not unlike a scene out of a comic opera. The population, in overthrowing the monarchy, also repealed the old royal edict against duelling which was found necessary in order to keep the Army from killing itself off in times of peace. Since an army is now held to be a menace to the freedom of the proletariat, it was thought wise to provide a safe way for getting rid of it. Hence the adoption of the duel...
...judged from the fact that the first restrictions did not appear until fifty years later, when students were forbidden to eat "plumb-cake," what this delicacy may be is not known but the authorities evidently took a dislike to it, for in 1722 we find a more stringent edict: "No provision for Plumb Cake, Roasted, Boyled, or Baked Meates or Pyres of any kind shall be made by any Commencer." They further stipulated that "Distilled Lyquours" were to be seized by tutors. What these gentlemen did with the confiscated property is not told, but an entry in the diary...
Those of us who live many hundreds of miles from Cambridge are delighted to learn that the federal inspector has issued an edict fixing the rate for meals on a railway dining car at $1.25 a plate. Hence the moderately wealthy Californian will no longer need to embark on a four-days' fast when he comes east to college. We are glad for his sake. And even those of us who take but short trips are interested in the new regulation, especially in the particular clause that stipulates that the food shall "be worth the price." This introduces an entirely...
...pages of the Advocate the right of the students to publish a paper which should express undergraduate opinion, even when that opinion differed radically from the views of the Faculty, was strongly and successfully asserted. The counsel of the more liberal members of the Faculty prevailed; the edict of expulsion was not enforced; and the Advocate was not suppressed. The founding of the Advocate is a story worth repetition because the event it describes established the freedom of the press at the University...