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...communications and transportation have, by annihilating time and space, made our present opportunity greater than that of 1776. Men must face the alternative of law or war. It is a change that is far off-few will see it--but it is coming with the sure tread of an epoch in world history, and it is the duty of all citizens, all states and all nations to so help in its hastening that the time will soon come when the world will enjoy that much to be desired condition of "peace on earth, and good will...
With this afternoon the close of a new epoch in the history of University teas is marked. There have been University teas and University teas before, but never successful ones. Awarding credit for this year's revolution of precedent where credit belongs may their star continue in the ascendant...
...show the rapid march of events in England, Mr. Lansbury described the Dublin transport workers' strike. It has marked as important and as definite an epoch in the industrial history of England as did the great dock-workers' strike of the nineties, which heralded the birth of the new unionism. Its effect has been to make Catholics and Ulstermen, in Belfast and Dublin, forget their religious and racial animosities, and join in the struggle for industrial emancipation...
...diners may not be so numerous as last year when 700 graduates assembled at the Copley-Plaza to honor the 1912 team, the number will be but slightly under that figure and the enthusiasm will be just as rampant owing to the fact that the 1913 season was an epoch making one, making the first victory over Princeton on Osborne Field and the initial triumph over Yale in the Stadium...
Maitre Labori, not only an eminent scholar and author, but also the chief counsel in many epoch-making cases, was born on April 18, 1860 in Reims. His preliminary education there was followed by two years of study in Germany, England and finally Paris, where he began his career. In 1884 he was admitted to the bar. During his life in Paris he has figured in such cases as the Dreyfus Appeal and the Zola and Humbert cases...