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...such men as Lincoln and Carlyle and such documents as the Declaration of Independence. Quite a different point of view is shown in the statement reprinted elsewhere on this page reporting the progress of the Bryan Memorial University, a college in which every member of the faculty must swear to an implicit belief in the divine authorship of the Scriptures...
Next morning a farmer, setting out early to gather fodder, found Fugate sprawled in a bed of bloody snow, still alive. At the hospital, Fugate, his armbone shattered, raised his right forefinger to swear to the identity of six of his assailants. The six, all kinsmen of murdered Lawyer Watkins, voluntarily surrendered. Only then did the lynched man die, making murderers of indiscreet lynchers who had broken Lynching Rule No. 1: "Do not leave your man until you are absolutely sure he is finished...
...swear on my honor...
College boys frequently swear off smoking and drinking for indefinite periods, invent elaborate forfeits for backsliding. Generals of Armies, Presidents of Republics are seldom so ingenuous. Not so President of Mexico Emilio Fortes Gil and General Pedro J. Almada, Chief of Military Operations in the State of Puebla...
...banquet tendered President Fortes Gil in Puebla City last August upon the conclusion of the last revolution, the Chief Executive, who has high plans for making Mexico temperate, scanned the liberal wine list, then suggested to General Almada that they both swear off tobacco and liquor, that the first to fumar (smoke) should pay the winner 100 silver pesos ($50), the first to beber (drink) should pay 200 silver pesos ($100). General Almada manfully agreed...