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...loss of many former adherents who have become disgusted with the methods employed, have been forced to use the most dangerous weapon in their power. They threaten to set on foot throughout India a movement advising the people not to pay taxes. As taxation has always been the particularly sore point with the large, ignorant class of India, this idea holds a strong appeal. If this threat is carried out and is successful, the outcome will be certain and fatal. The British Government in India will not trifle with disobedience...
...work. When you have seen such conditions you can realize the often-asked question of where the workers get their absurd idea of restricting output. If you see the pile of raw material getting smaller and smaller every hour, and your job going with it, you feel pretty sore...
...looks of things, the injured list will contain very few names by the time of the Princeton game. Holmes, who has been suffering with a sore foot, has now returned and will probably be used in scrimmage this week. Churchill, also, has recovered sufficiently to take part in practice...
...other insects have been shown to be dangerous. Dr. Smith has also conducted exhaustive researches on tuberculosis, was the first to recognize that there were distinct differences between the bovine and human tubercle bacilli, and contributed to our knowledge of hog cholera, anaphylaxis, contagious abortion of cattle and streptococcic sore throat. He discovered several new parasites of the lower animals, one of them the micro-organism of blackhead in turkeys, a disease of large economic importance. This discovery will help reduce the cost of Thanksgiving dinners. He has devised many laboratory procedures; one of these, the fermentation tube, is universally...
...Valley of the Saar, Professor Haskins showed how it became an interrelated problem of the Rhine and a phase of the question of Alsace-Lorraine. He also clearly described the French boundary lines through history, saying that the loss of the frontier of 1814 to Prussia remained a sore point with France until it was swallowed up in the greater loss of 1871. When the recovery of Alsace-Lorraine in 1918 revived the question of their former boundaries, it was natural to inquire what the intervening century had brought forth...