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Guided into the paths of righteousness by these regulations the Freshmen of 1787 trod thorny ways with constant anxiety about hats and the right of way. And the rules quoted above are only some of the milder restrictions. More awe inspiring were the provisions requiring Freshmen to run errands for upperclassmen and giving to the upperclassmen unlimited right of chastisement in case the mission went askew. But sufficient has been said to show the humblest Yale Freshman who walks the campus that he is monarch of all he surveys in comparison with the lot of his unhappy ancestors
Turati. As the loyal mechanic stepped down, there stepped up into his place Signor Augusto Turati of Brescia, a newspaper man of milder temper. It was asserted widely last week that this exchange is designed to mark the end of what has been called the "Fascist phase of terror." The moderate Fascist clique, headed by Minister of Interior Luigi Federozoni, is announced to have won Mussolini over to a slightly less harsh and repressive policy. Last week the event of significant note was merely that Farinacci did as he was told, resigned. Observers opined that he will certainly be rewarded...
...been jesting in the press galleries at the Capitol about a "certain southern Senator," formerly a fierce denouncer of Wall Street and the interests and until recently only moderately well-to-do, who during last summer made some $200,000 in real estate and whose philippics have now grown milder because he no longer regards all wealth as an evil demon...
Thus were the two leaders when the greatest of all Parliaments was at its greatest. His body breaking up, Disraeli in this year of 1876 left the Commons for the milder House of Lords, becoming the Earl of Beaconsfield. But he still retained the leadership of his party and was prime minister (1874-80)?his one spell of real unchallenged power. He had begun this reign by getting the Suez Canal?with Rothschild's help. "Madame, you have it," he scribbled to the Queen...
...Such were the Gargantuan interludes which Prince Bismarck could conjure about him like a spell. His wife, Johanna von Puttkamer, was of a milder temper. Yet their daughter got on well with her mother, too. In the Princess Bismarck's absence she presided over the famed Yellow Salon so graciously that a newspaper of the day declared: "She has become a remarkably fine woman, whose wit and intelligence are the theme of general praise...