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During his quarter of a century in active Ministerial offices, he ever strained at effective reform of social, labor and industrial conditions. If his great measure, the Factory Bill, was subsequently passed by a Conservative Government (and that in itself was no mean compliment), his Old Age Pensions Act and his fight with the Lords which culminated in the Parliament Act of 1911 remain unique monuments to a life of splendid service to his country, for which he has at last consented to accept a high honor from the people through its cherished embodiment, the King...
...educator in the United States, but a well known scientific expert. Under his direction the Law School has reached a place of leadership in America never before equalled. The possibility of his resignation from the University, to accept the offer of the presidency of the University of Wisconsin may mean that his address tomorrow will be one of the last public lectures which he will give in Cambridge...
...record this year is marred by only one defeat in six games. Among its victims are Williams, Trinity, Clark, and Wesleyan, all of whom it has defeated with little trouble. Comparative scores mean little, but the fact that the "farmers" defeated Williams 38 to 19, while the latter conquered Middlebury by almost exactly the same total as the Crimson, quintet did, at least promises a close struggle. The game will begin at 8 o'clock. HARVARD M. A. C. Smith r.f. l.g. Smiley Leekley l.f. r.g. Partenheimer Rauh c. c. Jones Samborski r.g. l.f. Samuels Morrison l.g. r.f. Temple
...anger of a part of the white population and the heated indignation of the Negroes meant nothing to the Anglo-Dutch Minister of Justice, one Tielman Roos. Interviewed by a correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, he stated his position "with appalling clarity": "Impartial justice does not mean, .that a judge or a magistrate would necessarily give precisely the same sentence to a white man as to a native in a given crime. A very brief sentence of imprisonment to a white man means a great deal more to him than a very much longer term of detention to a native...
...think, in the Jan. 5 issue of TIME the two paragraphs beginning at the bottom of col. 1, page 18 and concluding the article are as fine a description of a storm and its awful power over man as I have seen in many a day. My commendation will mean little but I felt that I must express myself and that it might interest you to know someone else appreciated a really imaginative attempt to do an age-old subject...