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...seeming pedantic as "non violent coercion by methods of nonparticipation." Briefly, he wished to free India from foreign domination, and to bring this about he initiated his famous triple boycott, urging all his followers to ignore British courts keep their children out of British schools, and refuse to take pare in governmental assemblies. The immediate disruption of civil affairs which the continuance of this program brought about moved the local authorities to seize the Mahatma and confine him in prison, after one of the most extraordinary trials in English judicial history...
...with Municipal Government, Government 9, dealing with State Government, Government 7 and 18, dealing with Federal Government, Government 11, dealing with the government of colonies and dependencies, and Government 8, dealing with the principal European countries, are courses which describe different types of government more in detail, and com- pare their structure and functions, as developed under different conditions, with particular reference to their actual workings. All these courses treat the practical problems of politics and administration as well as more theoretical questions of organization and activity...
Steps will be taken to give permanent membership to the colleges which were represented on the old committee before its consolidation with the conference committee, and the committee will be empowered to per pare final rules for the season of 1908. Pennsylvania and Chicago have joined the new association, and Cornell and Yale are expected to ally themselves with it in the near future...
...connection with these, the attention of those interested in Turner may be called to the pare set of prints from Turner's "Little Liber," now exhibited in the print room. ARTHUR POPE...
...addressing a disorderly crowd in a New York square, and, being unpopular with many of his hearers, he was frequently assailed by flying fruit and vegetables; stretching forth his hand, he caught an apple thus thrown, and, taking his knife from his pocket, proceeded with the utmost coolness to pare and eat it. Certainly an admirable repartee! But we can learn this style of oratory in the city streets among the hackmen and newsboys much better than at our great University...