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...difference, however. The East Indian, once dead, could be forgotten. The Leavenworth convict is not killed but remains to be a very acute problem. If he is kept in prison, he can pose as an example of the tyranny of the capitalistic oligarchy; and if he is freed, he can carry on his work of socialism and anarchy quite as effectively in peace as in war. Indeed it is probable that this petition of amnesty which the President has granted, after its presentation to three successive administrations was offered partly with the very thought of placing the Government...
...Fosdick scored those who insist on a systematic body of doctrine, or membership in any church, or performance of a given ritual as the essence of Christianity. He said that religion must be freed of the irrelevant entanglements, the artificial adhesions, that do not matter, and he stressed the absurdity of the idea that the college man is not a Christian, because he "has had his intellect liberated by that luminous and illuminating view of the universe that has come to us in the concept of evolution...
This year for two afternoons a week, at least, the University hockey team will be freed from the handicap of late practice and 'snow' ice, and the Freshman and second teams will be given an opportunity for indoor practice...
Americans would perhaps feel insulted, were they told that their own was a one man government. But they have seen two presidents break under the mass of administrative routine heaped upon them. President Coolidge, although freed of a small amount of this routine, finds time outside his many duties only for a short morning walk. The simple truth seems to be that an administrative organization designed to direct the government of two million people now directs, without any change of design, the government of a population fifty times this size. The death of this great British statesman may serve...
...whole Rhineland towards the forming of an independent republic. According to French experts, the creation of the republic is only a matter of days. But the matter is not so simple. The Berlin Government is violently opposed to the secession of the Rhineland from the Reich; the population, freed from the influences of Dr. Dorten, the most prominent Rhineland Republic agitator, and reported French gold, is not wholly sympathetic with the independent republican idea. These people point out that as a buffer state between France and Germany the Rhineland would be worse off than...