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Such examples of rigid domination of conservatives over constructive liberals have been increasingly frequent of late in American educational institutions. The question has ceased to be one concerning the justice of conflicting views; the very principles of liberalism are at stake. Education is presumably an effort to cultivate the rational powers of youth and yet in these instances such faculties have been forced to choose between the option of conforming to the prevailing mode of thought, or of ceasing to function...
...ventured to enter a bazaar veilless some months ago, had been seized by her husband's retainers, shut up in solitude. With the assistance of the Russian police, roused to investigate the Persian's house, a door was forced and the inner compound entered. At a stake set up in a pool of muddy offal was found, chained like a dog, the merchant's feminist wife. Rescued, nursed, she hovered between death and recovery...
John Huss (he spelled it Hus) of Bohemia was tied to a stake in 1415. Hysterical peasants and zealous priests pointed to a pile of fagots at his feet, again asked him to recant his life's teachings. He replied with his eyes on the clouds: "God is my witness that I have never taught or preached that which false witnesses have testified against me. He knows that the great object of all my preaching and writing was to convert men from sin. In the truth of that gospel. . . I now joyfully die." The flames licked out his life...
...eerily about at night, fixing their terrible fangs on human victims, draining out blood. Therefore, the corpse of a wampir (vampire) remains always fresh and rosy in the grave, nourished by the blood sucked by the vampire ghost at night. Effective means of exterminating vampires are: to drive a stake through the blood-nourished corpse; cut off the head; tear out the entrails. So say the wise sages of the Balkans, and so simple peasants believe...
...indoor championship is at stake and the match should be featured by hard riding on both sides. For the last two years these two teams have met in the finals of the league play and the 101st Armory trio has taken both games. However this year the University riders have an unusually strong team and will enter the game favorites after two weeks of rest. The team will play a number of post season games while waiting for the ground to harden for its outdoor practice...