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...Mood '21, instructor in History here and at Radcliffe, has been granted a fellowship to pursue his work in the history of American Colonial ideas. His particular interest lies in the tracts and booklets published between 1578 and 1660, which resulted in the investment of English capital, and the settlement of the Atlantic seaboard...
...regard for law, such as no great people have yet evinced, and infinitely surpassing ours,--the multiplicity of authorities in the American Constitution would long ago have brought it to a bad end. Sensible shareholders, I have heard a shrewd attorney say, can work any deed of settlement; and so the men of Massachusetts could, I believe, work and Constitution...
This afternoon Lowell and Dunster will play off the first matches in the settlement of the leagues A and B squash racquets House championship...
...which had caused the president of Harvard and Cleveland's Baker to hatch their dynamite. Excerpt from this egg, laid metaphorically by the Dove of Peace: "If it shall be found [by the League Assembly] that Japan has resorted to war without submitting the dispute to arbitration, judicial settlement or to the Council-none of which has been done-it will be the covenanted duty of all the members of the League to prohibit trade and financial relations of their countries with the covenant-breaking state, and to prevent all intercourse with that state by the people...
Squatting on top of a watch tower, U. S. Minister to China Nelson T. Johnson watched the terrific show. In London the Government of His Majesty King George announced that plans to evacuate every British subject from Shanghai's International Settlement were ready. A British ship loaded with extra munitions steamed Chinaward. In swank Shanghai hotels the white women were getting scared at last, refused to go to bed, sat in the lobbies hour after hour. To Washington cabled Admiral M. M. Taylor, Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet: "The Japanese have been forced to slow...