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...stood face to face. "I have come to say," said Father-in-Law Hamaguchi, "that I hope the expenses of the wedding proper will not exceed 50 yen [$25], and that not more than five yen [$2.50] per wedding guest will be spent on refreshments. I shall instruct my son to spend not more than 250 yen [$125] on the wedding trip...
...back in the sticks, has resulted, it seems to me, in a most deplorable state of mind. We are given generally to understand, these days, that neither Princeton or any other American university can really educate a man--let alone cultivate him. The American university can, at best, merely instruct him in his A B C's. It remains for Oxford or Cambridge really to civilize the brute...
...other hand to have on the bench a coach who is a fine example to his men is by no means an evil. He can impress them more deeply by showing himself capable under pressure. Undoubtedly the game has been managed too much by the coach. Indeed, to instruct the pitcher or catcher to look toward the bench before every pitched ball is perhaps going too far. Players can be given more opportunity to exercise their initiative, but to do this it is not necessary to remove the coach from the bench...
...expert, who did yeoman service as a speaker during the last General election. With Baron Ponsonby and Baron Aman the number of Laborites in the House of Lords is now 14, as against approximately 500 Conservatives and 90 Liberals. It had been rumored that Scot MacDonald would "advise" (i.e. instruct) the King to create 100 Labor peers, but the public excitement sure to follow such a perfectly justifiable move was deemed not worth risking until Labor has an overwhelming majority in the House of Commons...
...their glorious work? Can it be that the stern motto "The end justifies the means" only hides spirits saddened by the quality of those means? If so, it is time for some kind person to take the blindfold from the eyes of the self-made martyrs, and to instruct them, gently, that no one wants to suffer. Then, with the contentment of those who have done their work well, they can withdraw for a cozy session with the Peter Rabbit stories...