Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...government agents have occasionally allowed popular hysteria to serve as a cloak for illegal acts. In such cases the courts exist to give redress. The Americanism of Judge Anderson may not be quite as blatant or showy as other brands of the same name. But it is none the less in accordance with the best American traditions. In granting the law's protection to the accused, he has only fulfilled his duty. As a member of the American bench, he could not well have done otherwise...
...regret that an element among us does exist so lost to any sense of personal decorum that they constantly imperil the reputation of their chosen college and drag its fair name in the mire--only qualifying the admission by the demonstrable statement that the number of offenders is less than their apparent ubiquity might indicate. A. ALEXANDER ROBEY...
Another awful thought. Suppose that some fortunate Colgate alumni possess girths of less than the 30-inch norm. Will the Committee feel itself bound to reimburse such men for their shortcomings at the rate of $5 for each inch of deficiency? We hardly think so. If they did, we might see an alarming increase in the number of Colgate alumni to be found among the Living Skeletons and the Human Matchsticks at the circus. Colgate may need the money; but a surtax on waistlines is a dangerous way to raise...
...prove in the nature of a compromise. The Government will, no doubt, issue a statement that all negotiations with Japan will be made public. The striking students will then resume their interrupted labors, fortified with the knowledge that the student, if organized with his fellows, is not wholly weapon less...
...less true that in this particular sphere of international irritation we are the representative of the rest of the civilized nations. Because of the Monroe Doctrine no European nation can act in Mexico without our sanction. We are then or at any rate ought to be internationally responsible for conditions in the land of perpetual revolution...