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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Adamson Act takes "liberty" and "property." Is the taking justified? Is it "due process"? The test of "due process" is whether the act has a "substantial and rational" or "reasonable" relation to the welfare of the public or any part of the public. Clearly it has some rational relation to the public welfare. The question then is, whether that is "substantial" or "reasonable." This is determined by balancing all the interests of society involved and determining whether the preponderant effect of the act is such that any generalization resulting from sustaining it will open an unobstructed way for attack...
...spectacle was to have presented sketches from Cambridge history, and not less than 3,000 people were to have taken part. The fund of $15,000 necessary to cover the preliminary expenses has been raised, but the amounts pledged in support of the affair will be returned to the guarantors...
...Another consideration is probably the hope that she may be relieved of her present obligation to pay Germany's share of the Boxer indemnity of 1900. The German part of the fine imposed on China was very heavy. The Boxer indemnity will not be completely paid off until 1940 and probably the Chinese government hopes to obtain a reduction from all the Entente Allies, and perhaps especially to get the German quota reduced...
...engage freely a large number of Chinese laborers; this, however, they were free to do without the necessity of bringing China into the Entente group. She has no navy and her army is relatively a negligible quantity. In a word it seems easy to determine why China for her part should consent to a rupture of relations with Germany, but what advantage the Allies look for is not so patent...
...Business School examinations end in the early part of June just when those of the College are beginning. The Business School men who are members of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps will thus have an opportunity for special quartermaster instruction during the time that the College examinations are taking place and before the summer camp opens. It is expected that officers will be detailed from Washington to supervise the instruction. However, several of the instructors in the Business School have had special training and hold commissions in the Quartermaster Officers' Reserve Corps, and could oversee the training. The Business School...