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...result of defeats by Holy Cross, Dartmouth, Princeton, Army, and Yale. Possibly at its meeting scheduled for December 3, but more probably later in the year, the Committee must find some solution. What is this to be? Is Harvard to send its scouts to the high schools in search of potential All-American material and to have its football squad practice until 6.30 o'clock every day? Or, is Harvard to continue to subsist on the scanty fare of an annual victory over New Hampshire? Either alternative is undesirable in the extreme, and it is the task of the Committee...
...likes of the Justices is a gross exaggeration. As Justice Cardozo pointed out in an essay, the job of the courts is to apply the Constitution and the law in cases where they are obviously meant to apply. In other cases it may be necessary for the Court to search for the intent that was behind a law to fit a particular case. Then interpretation comes into play. It comes still more into prominence when a case arises which the law has not foreseen and about which the framers of the law had really no intention. In such cases...
...Andrei had in his breast pockets plans of the palace, its secret entrances and those sliding panels which have enabled Rumanian Royalty to pass with such discretion from one bedchamber to another. Next day police, gendarmes and detectives raided scores of hotels, restaurants and clubs, stopped railway trains to search passengers to the skin. By nightfall Spy Andrei had been joined in jail by over 5,000 suspects...
...Sheik: "An oath was taken." Eddie: "I didn't take it. Search...
None of Playwright Pirandello's work is calculated to arouse mass appreciation. When his Six Characters in Search of an Author was presented in Manhattan in 1922, the management served notice that the drama was "not for morons." But average playgoers did not find Six Characters altogether incomprehensible. A father, mother, stepdaughter and son appear on a bare stage where some actors are about to rehearse a play, insist on working out their destinies as they were conceived in the mind of a playwright who did not get around to setting them down on paper...