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...following have entered the annual championship tournament and may arrange matches to suit themselves: W. B. Harris '13, B. M. Preble '12, D. B. Priest uL., S. Seiniger '15, S. B. Slack 1G., and B. Winkelman...
...newly imported musical entertainment. The operetta which Messrs. Werba and Luescher produced, with much expenditure for scenery and costumes, and all too little for talent, is one of those highly seasoned delicacies of Viennese manufacture which have been twisted and pulled by the managers in New York to suit what is believed to be the tast of the king of the "Gay White Way," i.e. the man who buys the tickets. Whether it will suit or not is a question which the future will decide...
Justice Swayze then mentioned three cases of colored men bringing suit against three states in which "property" was considered the men's right to do jury service. In one case the reputation of the white race was considered property. The term "property" is rather intangible and not definite. The term "by due process of law" has also many implications. It goes back to the time of Edward III and is even understood in the phrase "the law of the land" in the Magna Charta. We are still in doubt as to what constitutes...
Justice Swayze then showed instances of the constant conflict between the State and federal governments caused by the difference in interpretations of the Eleventh and Fourteenth Amendments. The Eleventh Amendment states that "the Judicial Power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens or Subjects of any foreign State." Difficulty is encountered in Railroad cases. If a railroad is an Inter-state carrier, each state through which it runs claims the right to tax its property in that state...
...only a part of the great New Movement that is rapidly spreading all over the country. The object of the New Movement is: first, to give each voter a choice in the election of officers; second, to prevent small bodies of men, or corporations, from running the government to suit themselves; and third, to prevent the demagogue from exploiting the government for his own selfish end; in short to develop a government in which the people govern. Winston Churchill first attempted to accomplish this in New Hampshire in 1906, when he fought a losing but satisfactory fight against three other...