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...western universities there is almost complete self-government. But Harvard is by no means ready for so radical a change. Such a system can be successful only when the student body actually feels the need of it. It cannot be brought about as the result of an edict from University 4. Present tendencies are, however, in the direction of increasing participation by undergraduates in the councils of the University...
...Charles Sumner,--a great political leader, an eminent statesman, and an eloquent public speaker. He was also "the Senator with a conscience." He was a close personal friend of Abraham Lincoln and his influence upon the acts of the great President was seen most strikingly in Lincoln's Edict of Emancipation in 1862 and his clear and strong reference to the sin of American slavery in his Inaugural Address...
France, M. Leroy-Beaulieu said, has been in history, and is still, the first among Catholic nations, but she was the first country to proclaim religious liberty, in the sixteenth century. Louis XIV, by revoking the Edict of Nantes, could not suppress the Protestants, and they recovered their liberty before the Revolution, under Louis...
About twenty Japanese students of the university met on Nov. 3 to celebrate the anniversary of the birth of the Emperor of Japan. A recent edict of the Emperor's was read and national songs were sung...
...Gordon, who takes charge of the expedition, will leave Cambridge about the end of November, proceeding first to Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, to open negotiations with the government for a new concession, the edict under which the work of the former expeditions was carried on having been withdrawn...