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...victorious Freshman nine will meet the Allen Military Academy team on the latter's home grounds at Newton this afternoon. This is the fourth scheduled game for the yearling team, but one that should not seriously threaten their unbeaten record. Allen has played three opponents this season, tying one, losing to another, and defeating the third. The school that trimmed them was St. Mark's, whose nine the Freshmen toppled last Monday by 5 runs to 2. Thus, whatever can be deduced from comparative scores is decidedly in favor of the yearlings...
...visitors were retired in order for the first three innings, but in the fourth they connected for two hits, and seemed to threaten. A loophole appeared when, with two men on base, a Crimson player overthrew second, but Crocker's fast fielding and beautiful throw to third cut off Stone and ended the rally. The University gained its last two runs in the fifth, Conlon walked, got to second when the ball trickled out of shortstop's glove on a throw from catcher, and crossed the plate as Thayer's hard grounder skimmed the grass along the first base line...
Inasmuch as the English long ago did away with royal autocracy, they can find no comfort in a despotic executive. Their mandates threaten to cost them over twenty-eight billions of pounds in the coming year, and have already involved them in complications with other governments, notably with the United States. This burden has been assumed not only without the consent of the English people but in the face of a conspicuous lack of precedent. With former German possessions still being parcelled about by the League, it is only just that assumption of these mandates be subject to parliamentary control...
...Extremists, twice beaten and suffering the 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...
...this critical time reports threaten an influx of twenty-five million foreigners who intend seeking work in the United States. Immigration is no new problem but just now it assumes added weight; hospitality is not the only phase of welcome. Among the many aliens who come annually to these shores, a large percentage are of a low standard of intelligence, and while we may reap substantial benefits from their arrival, there are injurious effects as well to be taken into account. Not only does an inferior grade of foreign labor lessen available employment for Americans, but it tends to depreciate...