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Although these five sections account for a crowd of but 7000, it is expected that the total crowd on Saturday will come nearer 25,000. Practically none of the Harvard students have bought tickets to the game as their season ticket books will entitle them to admission to the cheering section...
...progress of another week's campaigning brought all candidates seven days nearer to the election...
...better it would be if the Constitution had been originally written or amended so as to permit two-thirds of both Houses of Congress to over-rule the one judge, just as they may over-rule the one President. The two-thirds of each of these two bodies come nearer being a correct expression of the best judgment of the best people of the forty-eight states and better than could ever be secured in the dilatory, lumber-wagon delays and tardiness of the present method of bringing the laws of the land up to the moral purpose of present...
...progress of a week's campaigning found the combatants seven days nearer to the election...
...continued their war (TIME, Sept. 15 et seq.) with great show and many loud noises, but neither side gained any appreciable advantages. In the north, slight progress was made by Tuchun Chang of Manchuria. In the south, the army of Tuchun Chi of Kiangsu drove its enemy two miles nearer Shanghai, their coveted goal; then rain stopped the engagement...