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...silver bullet which negro had intended to save for himself. The catastrophe is powerful in its contrasting mildness; the death of the emperor offstage, and the subsequent appearance of his body, verges dangerously on the anticlimactic. Perhaps it will sound like a plea of the sensational, but one cannot suppress a feeling that the play would end more effectively when the natives fire the fatal shots...
...Dutch or Nationalist party is not, it is true, allied with the government, but in the present crisis the Dutch population has rallied most loyally to the crown forces and is exerting every effort to suppress the disorders in the Transvaal. One convincing proof of this fact lies in the ranks of the miners themselves. Contrary to popular opinion, the vast majority of the white laborers in the mines are of British descent--only a very small percentage are Dutch--and it is this division, composed of English, Scotch, and Irish workers, that is causing the difficulty...
...offer to decrease its araments or at least to limit them. It would be suicide to take such a step before the many baffling and perhaps insoluble problems which confront the Conference are satisfactorily settled. It is necessary to clear away misunderstandings, to change traditions centuries old, and to suppress the greed and lust of nations before any steps can be taken to effectively end war. The Open Door in China, the desire of militaristic and war-made Japan for expansion, and finally the innate craving for ascendency which exists in us individually and collectively; all of these must first...
...degree democratic independence in higher educational institutions." In this assertion, it is mistaken in that the source of the donation has no influence on the ideas which higher institutions propagate. A teacher or professor has always had the right to his private opinion maintained. In fact all attempts to suppress this principle of academic freedom have failed...
...implying that the CRIMSON is in favor of tolerating a hang first and try afterwards "policy", the correspondent has read into the CRIMSON editorial a meaning which a careful scrutiny does not reveal. "A renewed and thorough-going attempt to suppress the increasing danger" does not necessarily mean "Palmer" methods. A reasonable amount of restraint, tact, and justice in handling the present labor situation is a far better preventive of more "red plots" than methods of unbridled force...