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...well for Governor Judd to assert his opinion on the matter, for to have allowed the case to proceed through the indefinite and sympathetic channels of the law would have appeared to the native as partial as his present decision. But it would have been more just and far-sighted to commute the sentences to a real term of imprisonment; for only thus could he have assured the natives of his impartiality and secured a retrial of the offending Hawaiians. At present, law in Hawaii stands riddled with race prejudice and contempt; to reestablish its prestige will prove a task...
Last week, while engaged in an editorial campaign against the American Legion, the Yale News branched off to assert with dogmatic pessimism that American politics are "just too dirty" and so corrupt that all self-respecting college men refuse to consider them as a worthy occupation. The editorial voices perfectly the feeling of hazy helplessness which overcomes the average undergraduate upon viewing with superficial haste the maze of American government as a possible occupation...
Senator Hawes (angrily) : Do you mean to assert that Senator Cutting and I are cowards...
...keep Yale rooters in their proper role of subjection, Coach Stubbs' skaters must win in no uncertain fashion as the Yale sextet has polished off the Hanoverians on three occasions this season 13 to 4, 4 to 3, and 7 to 4. Another team to assert its superiority over the visitors is Princeton. The Tigers put on one of their best performances in a 4 to 0 victory...
...point at issue is whether or not, once this value has been accepted, experiments in conversation will further a man's appreciation of the literature and its underlying culture. If you deny this you must then assert that the French and German tables perform simply a pragmatic function, which is that of making Freshmen able to get around in Europe. In all other senses, Latin is just as much a "living" language as any other. Certainly a lover of Latin can think in Latin, just as a lover of French thinks in that language as he reads his favorite authors...