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...quite naturally arises. A man in Mr. Landis' situation could not help being influenced by his own personal feelings in deciding cases connected with baseball or with the owners and backers of baseball clubs, many of whom have outside interests as well. It has long been a tradition of Anglo-Saxon law that no influence in the community should exercise any claim upon a judge. Therefore it would seem wise to require Mr. Landis to resign either his Federal or his baseball status...
...true theory we should hand all criminals as the most effective deterrent possible. The true theory is, we believe, that society feels it has been wronged--the social consciousness revolts--and demands restitution. A modern example of this is the lynching parties of our Southern States. Certainly the Anglo-Saxon "hue and cry" was the result of a society demanding retribution rather than one seeking to deter others...
...learning that he must differentiate between Azimuth and Right Ascension, between Declination and Altitude, he concludes that the standard in astronomy at Harvard, is too high, and he goes elsewhere. Another youth finds pleasure in the Canterbury Tales, but discovers that at Harvard, a course of study in the Anglo-Saxon language is necessary for a thorough knowledge of Chaucer. He likewise goes elsewhere...
...question of whether to take up the practice of the law. Into this question enter all the considerations which influence a man in choosing his life work. Space will permit of only the briefest mention of a few of the considerations which lead men to take up the law. Anglo-Saxon social, political and industrial life is built upon the law and the important part which lawyers have always played in the political and economic history of the Anglo-Saxon nations is too well known to need repetition here. There never has been a time, not excepting the stirring years...
...want to supply "martyrs" to the radical cause, it behooves us to use clean methods in fighting it. If the immigration authorities are giving the "benefit of the doubt" to the accused, they are only acting in accordance with a tradition as old as the Anglo-Saxon race. For them to act otherwise would be at once impolitic and criminal...