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People knew better in the seventeenth century. The testimony of Titus Oates, religious turncoat, political renegade, all-but felon and a confirmed liar was accepted by the government of England as sufficient to send scores of persons to execution and imprisonment. He was a witness worth having. One on Whom legislatures could rely. And besides, how much more conducive to unbiased statements were the howling streets of London and the death-fires of Peopes in effigy than the stultified academic stillness of Langdell Hall...
...comforting to think that in an age of radicalism Congress should stick by the old. The Senate can find no better precedents than the actions of the English parliaments of the seventeenth century. It is quite right in not proceeding too fast. The great American people must be educated slowly. They are not yet ready for such startling doctrines as the "infallibility of human testimony" and especially when it is backed by the Harvard Law School, no torious for its dangerously advanced views. "Slow but sure--sure to be slow" is an excellent motto for Congress just...
...Where" might fairly ask the still toiling educator on the seventeenth of May next...
Examples of seventeenth and eighteenth century book illustrations by noted artists comprise the exhibition which was placed yesterday in the cases in the Widener Room of the Library...
...members of the University track team captured places in the four track events of the Seventeenth Annual Field Day of the Knights of Saint Finbar, yesterday afternoon at Russell Field, North Cambridge...