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...second wife under the old polygamous law of Turkey. Paradoxically he turned to this same old law when he wished to divorce his second wife, and accomplished the deed simply by repeating three times the traditional formula: "I divorce you." Shortly thereafter the new Turkish code, containing Occidentally stringent divorce laws, came into effect...
...value of the study of Anglo-Saxon, inevitable fate of any man having aspirations toward a Summa Cum Laude in the Department of English in Harvard College, is questioned by the Daily Princetonian in a recent editorial. One gathers that the situation is even more stringent at that University than here at Cambridge. The Princetonian decries the fact that "undergraduates are forced to take this course"' and the Princetonian objects, although conscious that such objections are likely to fall on deaf ears...
...further opportunity to prove his self-reliance and his abilities for creative work. The saving grace of the whole scheme of both lectures and tutorial work lies in such a mediative policy, for at present the tutorial and needs strengthening and the course requirements need to be made less stringent. The balance between the two methods once attained, Harvard's plan of education will be as effective in the American locale as is Oxford's in the English...
...biography at his face value. Writing in the manner of fiction, she draws bold conclusions from his actions, makes no attempt to soften his cruelties on the excuses of religious mania. Yet human beings are more important than idols and the First Methodist is not diminished by stringent treatment. He emerges, a conceivable person, lecherous as well as righteous, prurient as well as pure, jealous of a girl as well as zealous for his God. Author Oemler treats him curtly but with even justice. The serious nature of the book may surprise that portion of the public who associates...
...political principle or organization such as truly befits a constitutional provision, but rather meet concern for a police regulation. And certainly the publicity of drunkenness has increased to proportions which do not alarm the alarmists and That, however, a speedy replacement of the amendment itself and state laws similarly stringent, is really called for, constitutes another matter, constitutes in fact a problem which all the wisdom of the nation is needed to solve...