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Score another for Feminism! the cult whose fundamental plank man has so impudently presumed to assail,-the movement which would tumble woman from her reverential pedestal to the same gross level of Masculinism. But man can take his comfort in the fact that nicotine stains on the fingers that get his breakfast will not measurably affect its flavour. And as for woman: from the Saint Regis to the Pre "Cat" she may forever puff her "scented" in peace...
...enemies of society snoring around him as well as good Americans down on their luck. Was it Peters of Harvard or Peters of the slums who took the compulsory shower bath and gave his clothes over for fumigation as No. 69? Did not the blatant Curley, rejected as Mayor, assail Peters as the candidate of "Harvard College and the slums"? If Curley ever slept at a hobo lodging house and chopped wood for his breakfast, it is not of common report. Peters is different, more of a doer than a talker, a getter of information at first hand. Not soon...
...spirit unique among men. His spirit is essentially that which imbued Napoleon. He possessed courage which never flinched, an energy that knew no bounds and which in itself inspired all who felt it, and he was a patriot whose loyalty to his land his critics never ventured to assail. His fall sends a shudder through the world. A beacon light has gone out. A towering oak, a landmark age-old has fallen. Yale bows its head in silent tribute to this great American. YALE NEWS...
...professional revolt and student mutiny continues to come out of Columbia, following the dismissals of Professors Cattell and Dana. Why? In most walks of life a man who fails to make good loses his job; and what failure can be more disastrous than a moral failure? No man can assail the national policy now without aiding Kaiserism. No man can counsel youth to disobey the law and expect to escape the consequences. New York World...
...striking commentary on the impartiality of Harvard men, which some sensational writers have striven in vain to assail, that two speakers holding such diverse opinions on great world events should speak under exactly the same conditions. With no show of boasting it may be said that the open-mindedness of the University's members is more than a word and a form. It is true in the sincerest spirit. All opinions that are sane and intelligent have here the same reception. They are judged on their merits...