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...clearly supreme and General Kashii rasped: "Orders to establish an emergency guard over conditions in Tokyo have been issued to the First Division. 'BY COMMAND OF THE EMPEROR, I have ordered mobilization of a portion of my troops at important points, the purpose of which is to maintain order in the capital and to protect important objects...
Harvard, then, has the standard of educational independence, a standard which American universities must maintain if the cause of education throughout the world is to continue its objective and unprejudiced progress. As President Dodds remarked, America especially faces the need today for "educated personalities" for the man who will not fear to take a determined stand upon a conclusion which he has reached through his own intelligence, not through an education which predetermines how and what he shall think, as is the case in Germany today. --The Daily Pennsylvanian
...Bruening said that by giving Hitler complete power, Von Hindenburg had two hopes. "First, he thought it was the only way to maintain his own power, and secondly he hoped that it might lead to a restoration of the monarchy. In both, he was mistaken...
...roles. How many tender romances have been spoiled because a shy young thing refuses the man of her choice in Leap Year, fearing lest her acquaintances think she has been the aggressor? How many ornithologists have seen the birds observing Leap Year? What pisciculturist would have the audacity to maintain that the fishes would alter their simple system of courtship for a mere convention...
There will be those to maintain that this campaign is a tempest in a teapot, that the problem in reality is non-existent. Let them explain away the incontrovertible evidence that tonight throughout the land women's colleges are having their most important social functions. In the face of this temptation, it cannot be overemphasized that man has a duty to his gender in these tempestuous days. Let him not forget who pays for the corsages when the feminine knee is bent and the roughed lips are popping the question. Let him not forget who pays for the theatre tickets...