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...thanks my heart can conceive, or my pen express, for your many troubles and cares taken for me. which-though they have not .taken effect as you wished-yet my debt is to you never the less. But pay it I never shall in this world. . . . Beg my dead body, which living was denied you; and either lay it at Sherborne, if the land continue, or in Exeter church, by my father and mother. I can write no more. Time and Death call me away." But the King reprieved him, shut him up in the Tower, kept him a prisoner...
...dismayed to see in this morning's editorial entitled Colonies and Peace, that the "Crimson" has accepted so blindly and unquestioningly the inexcusable oversimplifications of Mr. Frank Simonds. In the interests of the peace for which you yearn so eagerly, I beg a few inches of your space in which to expose another, more factual view of international relations...
...Chicago City Opera (see above) an occasion arose this week for critics to give honest praise to a Chicago musical venture. Its Woman's Symphony Orchestra was about to give a concert to celebrate its tenth-Anniversary season. It could rightfully command respect for performances that beg no indulgence because the players are female...
...beg to register a pre-season nomination for TIME'S next Man of the Year. Let your list of candidates for this distinction begin with . . . the one man whose vision and devotion to the public good are even now changing the entire course of social evolution: DR. FRANCIS EVERETT TOWNSEND...
Being a lawless rascal himself--but a gentle soul--the Vagabond feels there is too much anxiety over the Constitution and what nice piece of legislation the supreme judges will knock out next. Despite the belief of Justice Story to the contrary--beg pardon Sir--the Supreme Court has since his day frequently declared acts of congress and State legislation unconstitutional. And wasn't it back in 1828 that Jackson was elected despite Chief Justice Marshal's fears and clamors bout the constitution? Anxiety over the constitution and the Supreme Court has been with us from the outset...