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Since moderate regulation has failed to check the coal consumption sufficiently, drastic action is resorted to. Whether the University is directly affected, we do not yet know. Some branches certainly will be, and it is quite possible that the entire College may have holidays thrust upon it. In such an event we expect a long weekend, fewer classes, and a confused schedule. The inconvenience created would certainly be considerable, yet necessity may be greater. Harmful as such action is, however, it seems the lesser of two evils. If we are forced to suspend work temporarily, we do so that more...
...helm of the University have decided to give the special examinations for the Yaphankers during the time of the Christmas vacation. This effectively keeps the future soldiers from seeing their families and friends before going to war. It seems an unnecessary parting thrust at the student as he leaves; it gives him a decidedly bad taste of Harvard to carry with him through life. These examinations could be a week earlier; such a favor would be highly appreciated...
...then the throng having collected, representative of the South's chivalry and the South's courage, the mob thrust their victim into a small steel cage from which there was no escape. They bound him by chains at the hands and feet. Lest he, no doubt, should, although a member of the despised race and one against thousands, put to rout these courageous Southern gentlemen. When they had bound him, the chains being hard and the steel bars strong, they tortured him; the mob, with the fiendish tortures which from time immemorial have been the pastime of savages. And when...
Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, that the state of war between the United States and the Imperial German Government, which has thus been thrust upon the United States, is hereby formally declared; and that the President be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States and the resources of the Government to carry on war against the Imperial German Government; and to bring the conflict to a successful termination all of the resources of the country...
...Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the state of war between the United States and the Imperial German Government which has thus been thrust upon the United States is hereby formally declared...