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...performance of duty . . . the Coast Guard must stop, board and examine vessels. Because yachtsmen and amateur motorboat men . . . are law-abiding citizens, yachts and motorboats used solely for pleasure . . . will not ordinarily be stopped . . . unless suspicious circumstances warrant such action. . . . No person is safe to be entrusted with the navigation of any vessel who does not occasionally take a glance around the horizon. Such a proper lookout will disclose . . . any Coast Guard boat . . . signaling you to stop. The Coast Guard boat will use her whistle or horn or a megaphone or visual signals ... to attract your attention...
There really isn't anything particularly astonishing in the news that a prominent university president decries snap courses, especially if that man be President Lowell. But the metropolitan newspapers thought the information sufficiently alarming to warrant long stories and topcolumn head lines. There is a significance in his words, however, which though lacking in immediate appeal reflects a fundamental American educational problem. It is the fact that President Lowell was talking to school masters and giving them a little of the cool, hard headed advice which has begun to have its effect in institutions of higher learning...
...with the projected Harvard system appear to have the same justification for University ownership, but it cannot be too clearly pointed out that this should not establish a precedent for a general University housing program. The difficulties of managing isolated units and keeping everybody happy are too great to warrant the University's participation in work of this sort unless under the utmost duress of necessity. Happily the Harvard Housing Trust, as has been pointed out, has largely removed the likelihood of such obligation...
...January one Boyd Fairchild, Dry snooper, reported to the State's Attorney a purchase of liquor at the home of one Joseph De King, 38, in Aurora. For this information he was paid $5. A "John Doe" warrant was sworn...
Last week Deputy Sheriff Roy Smith, fat, officious, went to the De King home with the warrant. It was 9 p. m. De King refused to let him in. Smith went away, returned before midnight with three more deputies. They surrounded the house, threw mustard bombs, rushed the door. De King was clubbed into unconsciousness. Lillian De King, his wife, was at a telephone, screaming "Help! Help!" over the wire to their lawyer. Deputy Sheriff Smith fired a shotgun loaded with slugs point- blank into her abdomen. She wilted to the floor, dead. Gerald De King, 12-year...