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...upon his own initiative. By increasing the burden, it is expected he will meet his added responsibilities. The new curriculum announces that the time for this greater responsibility and freedom is at hand. If the student fails to take advantage of the education offered and neglects his work, an axe, self-administered, will without ceremony cut short his college career...
Anyone with common sense and no axe to grind with gangland knows that a law such as that which will make it illegal for the honest citizen to own or have in his possession a pistol or revolver is nothing but a tool in the hands of the gangs...
Number of bitten moujiks: 19. Number of wolves: 1. Moujiks cured: 16. Moujiks dead: 3. The wolf ran amuck in Smolensk province in March 1886. For two days & two nights it wrandered, at tacking everyone it met. One badly bitten man finally slew the beast with an axe. A Russian physician took the victims to Paris. Pasteur treated 16 of them with a new, intensive treatment (two inoculations daily). The three patients who died were treated by the then ordinary method (one inoculation in several days). The Tsar gave Pasteur a diamond cross of the Order of St. Anne...
...other directors of these very same firms signed the pro-tariff "Banker's Manifesto" which created such a rumpus just two months ago (TIME, July 14). Inescapable conclusion: Britain's bankers, famed as the most clannish in the world, have found an issue which splits like an axe even their own offices...
Thomas St. John Gaffney, onetime U. S. Consul-General in Berlin, returning from a visit with Wilhelm Hohenzollern at Doorn, deflated the legend that the ex-Kaiser continually chops wood for exercise; explained that, since his withered left arm hampers his axe-work, "what the Kaiser does is take the pieces of wood in his right hand and toss them with unerring accuracy into the barn loft...