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...once the courts have not been led astray by that ingeneous artifice known as criminal insanity, and have convicted a malefactor who well deserves it. The so-called Lone Wolf's plea of insanity has been rightfully denied, and the court has imposed a just sentence...
...minds of normal balance. But there is a great difference between temporary derangement and complete mental disorder. Men with the cleverness to commit crimes and then put on sufficient cunning to evade the demands of justice can hardly be adjudged insane in the ordinary sense of the term. The Lone Wolf has tried his wiles and failed. A Daniel sat in judgment over him. Such a decision is important in reestablishing the power...
...reason is that Mr. Borah is sincere. It may be that he has a natural preference for taking the opposite side of a subject, for taking a lone stand, but those who work within cannot doubt his conviction. He does not work well in concert with anyone. He does not attend party caucuses. He hardly can be induced to sit in at a committee meeting. He works alone and comes to his own conclusions; and, when he speaks, he states his position so reasonably, with so little partisan spirit, that he arouses no bitterness even in his direct opponents...
Cumings' performance in the cage during the past season was one of the bright features in a season marred only by a 1 to 0 defeat at the hands of the Yale skaters in the rubber game of the H-Y series. In this contest, the lone goal came after 87 minutes of strenuous play, during which Cumings stemmed a Blue rush time and again with brilliant stops. Only the remarkable play of Captain Jenkins prevented Cumings being acclaimed the "best" of the college goalies, and with another year of competition, he should succeed to the laurels heaped upon...
...powers of Europe? America's ostensibly disinterested policy in the Far East would necessarily be given up in favor either of frank imperialism or of total abandonment of China. With strong economic interests already involved, withdrawal is far from probable. And staying in the game, whether to play a lone hand or to take sides, will mean an end to "splendid isolation", and draw America into the ultimate...