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Excuse me for writing with a pencil. We are forbidden to write and this letter is to be smuggled out. That's Haiti under American rule...
...spoke, not as the Governor General of the Philippine Islands, not as the retired major general of the U. S. Army, but as the doctor of medicine that he also is. He was graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1884. An interne in a hospital where internes were forbidden to perform operations, he successfully operated on a child in an emergency and was dismissed for infraction of rules. He joined the Army as an assistant surgeon (1886). He served as medical and line officer with Captain Henry Ware Lawton in the great campaign of 1886 against the Apache Indians...
...times an amateur champion and noted especially for his putting ability, brought the " Schenectady" to fame in 1904 by using one to win the British Amateur Championship. In 1905, the British Golf Association barred centre-shafted clubs from its tournaments. In 1920, the U.S.G.A. followed suit. But, like the forbidden rib-faced mashie, "Schenectadies" are still widely...
...forbidden for a man to be alone in a hotel room with a woman who is not his wife, sister or mother. A simple kiss in the park is a legal offense. Adultery is actually considered a crime. But that does not keep the Americans from yielding to nature's demands, with the result that there exists a general state of dissimulation and hypocrisy that is rotting the soul of America...
...colleges, last week closed a "house party" of his adepts at Lake Minnewaska. N. Y. H. Alexander Smith, executive secretary of Princeton University and Professor W. B. Harris of the Princeton faculty were there, and great emphasis was given to their presence, for last spring the university authorities had forbidden Mr. Buchman the practice of his system there. The undergraduates were being "unhealthily" treated was the opinion...