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...courts conducted by men of their own country and according to their own country's laws. Such rights were justifiable when first established, for Chinese justice was then not conducted according to methods which western nations regarded as wholly civilized. It was permissible in Chinese courts, for example, to extort testimony by torture. Now the Powers here assembled have agreed that foreign courts will be withdrawn as soon as an international commission can determine that Chinese courts are adequate...
...suffer form the so-called good-nation of the susceptible, is the lasting effect upon the characters of the youthful mendicants. We have no right to expect that a class of children of the grammar school age--or even younger--who are educated to believe in their right to extort money from "the students" by cringing or bullying, will outgrow the harm which such a practice has done them. Let us harden our hearts and endure the imprecations, of disappointed petitioners rather than encourage a noxious custom for the sake of temporary release from persecution, or a few minutes...
...Treaty of 1818 technically enforced is relied upon as instrumentality to extort reciprocity from the United States.- Jay's Fishing Question, 6-13; Bayard's Letter in Foreign Relations...
...Columbia! that you should have come to this. Not content with your experience of last year, your glorious (?) victory of two years ago, you must extort this resolution from our willing faculty, ready to yield anything to any college, however unimportant, that had the hardihood to ask. The authority of dozens of races, won in the last mile, of hosts of crew men, who have rowed in four-mile races and are still "alive," is as nothing beside the desire to propitiate everybody. Princeton and Columbia, according to common report, have succeeded in gaining concessions from Harvard. We should like...
Edward T. Smith, a law student at Charlotte, has begun a suit against Olivet College for $10,000 damages, claimed to have been sustained by the action of the faculty in suspending him from the college on false charges. Smith claims that the faculty undertook to extort money from him in settlement of a groundless charge, and, not succeeding, suspended him and he was obliged to leave school. It is understood that he will also begin suits against two or three members of the faculty personally, unless their further services shall be dispensed with by the board of trustees...