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...despatch was allowed to pass in which she was quoted as saying: "I go to Death or Victory. ... I feel as Joan of Arc must have felt, under divine inspiration! ... I shall cut their barbed wire fence with pliers and seize the salt with my own hands. . . . Neither jail nor Death hold any terrors...
Theoretically no American institution, except the jail and the reformatory school, should knowingly harbor persistent violators of the law. Nevertheless, thousands of students are daily violating the Jones Law, in a large number of cases in the knowledge of and with acquiescence of their faculty. At Harvard, drinking is by no means considered a crime by the dean's office, and action is never taken unless the drinking leads to something for which the undergraduate would be punished for even if he led a strictly sober life--i.e., bad marks, disrupting influence, acts of extreme physical violence...
Lady Leader. As No. 2 leader of the Gandhi movement, Judge Tyabji at once announced that he would carry out a project which the Saint was on the verge of attempting when jailed: a great "nonviolent raid" on the salt deposits at Dharasana. How a "raid" can be "nonviolent" is hard for occidentals to understand. The British did not try, promptly clapped No. 2 leader Tyabji into jail near Navsari. Naturally smart St. Gandhi had not omitted to name a No. 3 leader. Automatically his whole vast movement for independence was turned over to her: Mrs. Sarojini Naidu, poetess...
Stern, the court fined whilom Chief Tibacu 100,000 lei (about $500), clapped him into jail for ten years, sentenced his wife and aides to five years each...
...Barbizon, France, was extremely fond of his grandfather. Who, indeed, would not be fond of such a forbear as the late great Jean Francois Millet, painter of The Angelus and Man With Hoe? So fond was Grandson Jean Charles that last week he was ignominiously thrust into a jail in Melun. For his fondness sprang from the fact that he had been able to use his grandfather's illustrious name in a scheme to bilk the public...