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...death of Student John Harper, 21, resulting from poison gin, caused the University of Chicago to announce that it was forced to employ a private staff of Prohibition agents, since the regular Federal officials did not give the campus sufficient protection...
...regular University news organ: "A screaming 'Tiger', going about seeking whom it may devour, has made its appearance in the college world, starting out from the savage jungles of Princeton to seek its fortune. Lampy and the lbis have each donned a roomy pair of boots, and now employ all their leisure industriously quaking in those boots for dread of him. He growls, he snarls, he meweth dainty verses, he screams in ferocious farces--but will he bite? And can he withstand the seductive charms of a Barnum, for how can one little, Tiger, however fierce he may be, make...
...Allied countries, during the War, a doctrine was widely accepted that it is rightful to employ any weapon or method of warfare whatsoever against an enemy who adopts atrocious weapons or methods first. This doctrine of "rightful reprisals" was made last week the basis of a five-volume defense of German War practices. Onetime Minister of Justice Dr. Johannes Bell presented the report, entitled "International Law In the World War" to the Reichstag. The five volumes represent seven years of labor by a "nonpartisan" board of German scholars appointed by the Weimar Constitutional Assembly (1919). The Committee concludes that...
Nations, in their dealings with each other, do not always employ subtlety, An open breach of official relations between governments is always a sign either that one of the countries has committed a breach of confidence, or that one of them, for secret purposes of its own, is trying to pretend that the other has offended...
...Imperial physicians came in a body to the Empress Sadako, now the Dowager Empress. They besought her for authority to employ this forbidden remedy upon the sacred person of His Majesty. Enlightened, courageous, the Empress Sadako took upon herself the heavy responsibility of authorizing for the first time a procedure hitherto regarded by Japanese in the nature of a sacrilege. Happily, success crowned the undertaking...