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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Suddenly certain newspapers and persons began to murmur, "This Parsee,* this M.P. from Battersea, he's a Red, an anarchist, a whatnot. What does the State Department mean by admitting him? Doesn't the law forbid the entrance of persons into this country who advocate the overthrow of our Government...
...hope is short-lived. Further details of the dispatch shatter the illusion, Yale authorities have relinquished nothing of their right to require attendance at chapel services, although to many students they are bound to mean nothing or even less than nothing. Battell Chapel is too small to accommodate the entire assemblage of students. The upperclassmen, therefore, are to be divided and will take their religious instruction in two shifts on alternate days. This is all there is to Yale's apparent change of heart...
...came out of Wednesday afternoon practice with an injured leg. Maher is a veteran backfield man with two years of University experience and considered one of the mainstays of the 1925 outfit. His disability, which will probably keep him off the field for three weeks or a month, will mean that a new adjustment in the backfield will be necessary at least for the first two games of the season...
...upon the fiat of the Governor General. The Governor General, like King George, generally gives ear to the reigning Premier in such matters. And he in turn responds by custom to any very marked indications that the public is restive and anxious to elect a new Parliament which will mean more power or oblivion for the Premier...
...most colossal and ruinous social sin that afflicts mankind: it is utterly and irremediably unchristian; in its total method and effect it means everything that Jesus did not mean and it means nothing that He did mean; it is a more blatant denial of every Christian doctrine about God and man than all the theoretical atheists on earth ever could devise...