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...should not judge their form of government, he added, without considering the character and history of the Japanese people. Since February 11, 660 B.C., the traditional date for the founding of the empire, Japan had been ruled by the Shoguns who controlled the office of Prime Minster, while the Emperor was reduced to a religious figurehead too holy to interfere in lowly matters of government. A revival of learning in the eighteenth century and contact with the western world revealed their true condition to the Japanese people. In 1867 the last Shogun retired and restored the Emperor to his full...
Thursday or Friday of this week has been selected as the date for the encounter between the Harvard and Yale Freshmen baseball teams, it was announced by the H.A.A. yesterday afternoon, after two previous attempts had proved futile...
...skiing is in winter. In Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and England there are now some 500,000 faltboats. Year and a half ago one Jakob Kissner arrived in the U. S., got a patent on faltboats, began making them under the name Folbot in Long Island City. To date he has sold about 2,000. Last fortnight, recalling that skiing won U. S. favor through snow trains, Jakob Kissner persuaded the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. to try a faltboat train. This week it will run from Manhattan to Falls Village, Conn., where the devotees will unfold their...
...tribute to Elihu Root as the one who made possible the work of the American Law Institute in restating the common law to match the times. It was not until the last 150 words of his speech that the Chief Justice pointed his remarks on the up-to-date state of the Court and improvements in Court procedure since 1891 with a ringing plea for an independent judiciary. Orated...
Plans for the collection of $1500 to be used to send an ambulance to "aid the Spanish democracy" are under way here and over $300 have been collected to date, it was learned yesterday...