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...Woods first described two phases of police activity that are little known by the general public. The policeman, when arresting a criminal is really a judge of the first instance, who must quickly decide what constitutes a crime. He is also the only authority in the land in the eyes of the new immigrant, who knows nothing of Constitution or Congress. If he forces some poor push-cart man to give him a bribe, the immigrant forms his ideas of American justice from that action. These two phases greatly increase the need of an honest police force...
...Copeland will lecture on "The Short Story" in the Dining Room of the Union on the evening of January 13 at 9 o'clock. On January 20 he will read one of the best-known tales of Edgar Allan Poe. These two evenings are intended to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of Poe's birth...
...University of Breslau, will give his second reading from Part I of Goethe's "Faust" in Emerson J this evening at 8 o'clock. The reading, which will be open to the public as well as to members of the University, will be chiefly from that part of "Faust" known as the "Tragedy of Gretchen...
Professor Kuehnemann will give his second reading from Goethe's "Faust" in Emerson J tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. The reading will be from the First Part of "Faust" and will deal with what is known as the "Tragedy of Gretchen." The reading will be open to the public...
...Francis W. Hirst, editor of "The Economist," London, one of the foremost economic journals of the world, will deliver a lecture on "The London Money Market," in University 23, this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. Mr. Hirst is a writer of considerable note and a well-known authority on the technicalities of economics and business. The lecture, although designed especially for advanced students in the Seminary of Economics and in the Graduate School of Business Administration, will be open to all members of the University. Tomorrow evening Mr. Hirst will give a lecture on "The Political Economy...