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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...would seem that the students dressed plainly and soberly, but in 1745 the Overseers found it necessary to prevent the wearing of gold or silver brocade and lace. From then on various sumptuary laws were proclaimed regulating to the minutest detail every man's apparel--Sometimes prescribing on what public occasions nightgowns should be worn, and sometimes forbidding them altogether, as in 1822: "A night-gown of cotton, or fabric, or silk fabric may be worn....except on the Sabbath or occasions when undress would be improper." Finally, in 1870, the size of the college and the students growing spirit...
...fifth of her territory in Europe and conditions designed to render her militarily helpless in the future. She also admits responsibility for the war and liability to make full reparation. The legal rights of inhabitants in occupied regions and the provisions of international law relating to the apportionment of public debt and the revival of pre-war treaties are recognized. Execution of the treaty is guaranteed by the League of Nations, supplemented by military conditions...
Although most newspaper editors seem bent on total avoidance of the subject, the many questions relating to National Prohibition can never be settled satisfactorily until they have been dragged into the light of free and frank public discussion. Should the 18th amendment be repealed, or itself amended? If it must stand, is it to be interpreted literally, so as to abolish all use of alcohol, or liberally so as to limit prohibition to actual intoxicants? These are questions which public opinion alone can answer, and the bombshell of national prohibition has left a very much dazed state of public opinion...
...Colonel's effort to interest the public in an army and to build up the National Guard is very laudable. A good Militia makes an excellent second line of defence. But we must not entrust our national safety to amateur policemen. If the United States needs an army at all it needs an effective one. This would include, besides the citizen soldiery an efficient well paid army of regular combat troops...
...government concealment of news. Never again will it speak with the authority it once had and this is the more regrettable because of the gravity of the new issues confronting all the nations of Europe and of the world. With the red flag flying on more than half the public buildings of Europe, there never was as much need of a free, fearless, and independent press as today...