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Joseph P. Lash, executive secretary of the International Student Service and former chief of the American Student Union, will speak on "The Challenge to Progressive Students" this evening. Lash's talk, sponsored by the Liberal Union, will begin in the Kirkland Common Room at 7:30 o'clock...
Tolstoy. His letters to Caucasia decreed vegetarianism, communal property, no alcohol, no tobacco, no soldiering, no sexual intercourse. These decrees made the Dukhobors more fanatical than ever. The Cossacks tried harder to lash them into submission. Over this persecution Tolstoy, Quakers, Christian Socialists, idealists everywhere seethed, then arranged a Dukhobor migration to the untilled Canadian prairies...
...Another thesis might be written on why students keep sane. In this war, at least, you boys have done just that. While the nation has been going crazy, you have remained calm. While the government has been driving us swiftly towards war, with professors laying on the lash, you have refused to be stampeded. Insistently you have maintained the dignity of education. The sanity of youth in this mad hour is perhaps the most encouraging sign of the times that this world is not yet lost. This sign must endure. Therefore, hold fast! Listen to your teachers with a healthy...
Renovation fell upon Yosuke Matsuoka like a lash across the shoulder blades, unexpectedly, unpleasantly, from behind. He had tossed verbal blows with his staff for only 72 hours when it came. It came not from his own ambitious mind, not from the Emperor or Prince Konoye or the Army-but from a fountain pen in a hand which wrote the words Franklin D. Roosevelt. The signature was set under an executive order which amounted to an embargo on oil and scrap iron. Japan had been getting an average of 70% and 90% respectively of her supply of these vital...
Detailed to pick up Fugitive Elmer Childers, Indiana State Policeman Donald Ray Lash, ex-Olympic distance runner, holder of the indoor world's record for the two-mile run, spotted his man making off across a field. Unbuckling his heavy gun belt, Lash took after his quarry, ran him down in a fast mile...