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PRINCETON, N. J., November 4.--A veil of absolute secrecy was drawn about the long practice at Princeton yesterday as Coach Roper drilled his eleven in new plays which will be used against the Crimson tomorrow. The scrubs, employing Harvard plays, were unable to penetrate Team A's stone wall defense...
Just what the government will be able to establish is a matter of conjecture for a veil of mystery has surrounded the proceedings up to the time of trial. It is safe to say that M. Caillaux will be ready with a masterly defence for he is not a man to yield without supreme effort and now he is fighting for his life. Let us hope that the French government will be able to lay its finger on some definite action of a man, who, in the mind of everyone, has tried to betray France...
...course on the Russian situation is of particular significance. No other modern country is shrouded in such a veil of mystery, and in no other field is a thorough, non-partisan investigation so much to be desired. There has been found at present no middle ground on the question. Naturally a course on Russia at Harvard College will not dispel all the extremists, but it has two important contributions to make. It will show that the University has not been led away from academic investigation by the current exaggerations regarding "reds," and will thus strengthen its reputation for scientific...
...worth neither the expenditure of Mr. Raffalovich's gifts nor the time of the paper maker and the typesetter. Mr. Raffalovich should remember, too, that ever since a certain person, named Defoe, for a few days fooled all the world, critics have justly asked whether irony from which the veil is never once lifted is, after all, quite fair...
...several decades we have plodded placidly along, pointing aimiably to our superior education that teaches the young, the old, the rich, the poor alike and reduces ignorance in the lower classes to a smaller proportion than in any European country. Now the veil is rent and we see a hideous condition of things; and at the same time there appears the root of a number of evils...