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Experiences at sea had freed old Captain Archer of local New England trammels, just as experiences on shore had left his wife tradition-bound. Between these two influences their only child, Mattie. grew up, strait-laced and windy-willed at the same time. After her mother's death Mattie is free to do as she pleases, but nothing happens until the Ladybird and its blue-eyed Captain Isadore Davis put in to Bowfort. At the sight of free-&-easy Isadore, Mattie's blood goes wild. Out to sea she sails with him, without letting her father know...
...various nations would be encouraged to present nations would be encouraged to present their views, and a hearty debate could be enjoyed without the restrictions of ponderous machinery. Embracing nearly all the benefits of the Model League, the informal group would possess none of its disadvantages. Only when freed from all distracting and misguiding puppetry can the discussion of international affairs attain its full value for the undergraduate...
Superficially, the suggestion is attractive. Freed from enervating periods with uninterested students, tutors could preserve their energies for more worthy men. Wealthy "gentlemen," unhampered by exacting requirements, would probably be attracted to a new dilettante paradise; expensive suites would be permanently filled and financial worries ended. But the exclusion of men in lower scholastic groups from the tutorial system constitutes a serious objection to the proposal. These students, although some are unquestionably a fatiguing bore to tutors, benefit occasionally more than any others from contact with men who are trying to stimulate their intellectual interests. To deny them so valuable...
...14th Amendment was originally adopted in behalf of the Negro, just freed by the Civil War. It was primarily aimed at Southern States anxious to put Blacks on a lower legal level than Whites. Economic evolutions gradually obscured this purpose from judicial sight until today the 14th Amendment constitutes the Federal Government's major control over most State legislation. By it the Supreme Court becomes the censor of all important economic and social experiments within the States. Does Kansas want to set up a compulsory Labor Court to fix wages and outlaw strikes? The Supreme Court, under the second...
...wrestling team, hit in the arm and leg; Bus Love with a wound in his leg; Frank Luckey with a bullet in his abdomen. Law Student Frederick was carried off, beaten badly, thrown from an automobile near the college hospital where he later admitted the kidnapping and shooting. Freed under bond, he pleaded self-defense. Said he: "I don't see what else I could have done." Mary Butterfield, who had not tried to resist, said the kidnappers promised to return her before the ball ended. "I got a big kick out of it," said she. After the shooting...