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...Benjamin March, Curator of Asiatic Art at the Detroit Institute of Art, will give a lecture on "The Forbidden City, Peking" in the Large Lecture Hall of the Fogg Art Museum on Friday, November 25, at 4.30 o'clock...
...similar disregard for civil liberties was apparent in their actions when students met to protest the dismissal. Since the Liberal Club is now minus the required faculty supervision, and since discussion of social problems is forbidden elsewhere within the college grounds, expression of their opinion has been effectively denied students. As a result, they resorted to public demonstrations to impress on the college officials their demand for Johnson's reinstatement. Rather aimlessly molested by policemen on one occasion and finally allowed to continue their meeting, they later attempted a discussion in the college building itself, and were ejected when...
...universal tendency in such cases to shower sympathy on the workers, whose pickets are broken up, whose assemblies are forbidden, and whose political activity is curtailed. Much sympathy is doubtless deserved, but it is a mistake to assume that the operators have no reasonable case. The cut throat competition of small independent mines demands of owners a drastic economy even in prosperous times. When conditions are poor and orders scarce that need is even more pressing. Wages must be cut if the mines are to operate at all; and then as always, the present impasse develops...
...ruling of the Labor Department dated September 1, which limits as employment available to foreign students, work which directly pays for the man's board and room. To work for one employer and use the wages received to pay for board in some other place has been forbidden...
Most fun was had in the Purple Forbidden City by Annam's late Emperor Thanh-Thai. Was there any rule of etiquet. demanded this ingenious monarch, which barred him from setting up a market in the Palace courtyard, with eunuchs to sell meat & vegetables, the Empress & concubines as buyers and His Majesty as the fishmonger? Abashed, the Keeper of the Book of Rites replied that His Majesty might have a market. Next day and every day thereafter the courtyard hummed with haggling, especially furious around His Majesty's fish booth...