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...hard to understand the mental attitude of those students who can sell their fellow-students grand stand tickets for today's game at an advance in price and attempt to maintain their self-respect. Speculating in tickets, taking advantage of the fact that others cannot, or least do not rush to the first sale of tickets, is at best a business to be ashamed of; but carrying it on as a student among students, setting the value of a small gain above a regard for common kindness that should exist between man and man, to say nothing of college mates...
...proposed to play Harvard at New York on Thanksgiving day, but, regarding the rule, Harvard could not consider the proposal and the game will be played at Springfield. Moreover, the dual league scheme was abandoned last year partly because of the New England clause. Harvard is now bound to maintain this position, at all events for this fall at least. If there is to be a game, Harvard will have to insist that it be played in New England...
...barbarian invasion. The debris was scattered over the world and on it the seeds of the new religion were strewn, took root and flourished. In fine, all history is a puzzle of which Christ is the Great Solution. He alone was able to give true civilization. He alone can maintain...
...intend to enter business cannot maintain that their college work has been less valuable, while those who study law will gain a whole year. Similar privileges producing parallel results will be extended to the seniors who desire to go through the School of Mines, and of course also to those who wish to study in the School of Political Science or in the School of Philosophy...
...United States hold such a right by the established general principles of international law. (a) 1t is the custom of nations to maintain jurisdiction over large bodies of waters, and no limit is observed by them as to the extent of their jurisdiction from the shore-e.g. Chesapeake Bay, Bay of Chaleurs, Fortune Bay, Long Island Sound, Battie, formerly Gulf of Manar, etc. (b) A nation's first duty is to maintain the existence of its inhabitants, and a number of the inhabitants of the United States would starve if the government did not protect the seal fisheries. Hall...