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After the decisive defeat at Chemulpo, Russia declared that she was wholly unprepared for this violation of international law. But Russia fired the first shot in the war, while the presence of her battleships and soldiers at all strategic points, and her naval demonstration just before the outbreak of hostilities, is conclusive proof that she was fully prepared for the struggle...
...Forbes Robertson and his company will sail from New York for Southampton on Saturday, April 9, on the "Vadeland." In May Mr. Robertson and Miss Gertrude Elliott will appear in a play called "On the Edge of the Storm." The scene is in India, just before the outbreak of the Sepoy mutiny...
...subject was "The Peregrinations of the Guillotine." Professor Sumichrast began by explaining the various ways in which the old monarchical government inflicted the death penalty. The invention of the guillotine, which in some analogous form had already been used in Germany and in Scotland, happened to coincide with the outbreak of the Revolution, and was not a consequence of that movement. But it was certainly singular that the invention should have taken place at that particular time, since it enabled executions to be conducted with a rapidity and a certainty which would have been impossible with the means formerly...
...outbreak is still spreading and the need for help is most urgent. All students, no matter of what faith, can show their charity and good will. Every contribution means aid to the homeless and destitute. Contributions should be sent at once to Dr. Charles Fleischer, 40 Concord avenue, Cambridge...
...dual fencing match which was to have been held with Cornell at Ithaca tomorrow has been postponed on notice from the Cornell management on account of the serious outbreak of typhoid fever at Ithaca...