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...judge; I'll be jury', said cunning old Fury;" and the council of the city of Boston has followed the precedent. The Trustees of the Public Library have been cordially invited to attend the next meeting of the city fathers--in the capacity of counsel for the defense--of Webster's Dictionary, so that they may duly show cause, if any, for the retention of said dictionary upon the shelves of the above-mentioned library...
...fallen; but it is at least right and fitting that Boston should take the lead in suppressing an iniquitous volume whose definitions do violence to the New England conceptions of liberty and the Constitution. Right bravely has the more or less permanent advisory or legislative body, as that flippant Webster has it, the city council of Boston, stepped to the defence of its hearth fires and homes by snatching from the nation's youth a plaything far more dangerous than a noxious rattle...
...Yard Dash.-Johnson, Leh. Lambert, Jones, Morton, Conger, Gordon, Hitzrot, Stevenson, Trimble, Webster...
Richard Chute '22 presided at the competition and the judges were Professor W. Z. Ripley, Assistant Professor K. G. T. Webster '93, and Assistant Professor A. F. Whittem...
...following is the program for the Lee Wade and Boylston Prize speaking contest, which will take place this evening at 8 o'clock in Sanders Theatre: R. A. Zinn '24, "Boots", Rudyard Kipling N. C. Fassett '22, "The Congo" Vachel Lindsay B. A. Trustman '22, "Repiy to Hayne", Daniel Webster Oviatt McConnell '24, "My Last Duchess" Robert Browning C. W. Phelps '22, "The Power of Motive", Frederick Aobisoha (Intermission of five minutes) M. P. Lichauco '23, "The Voice of the Philipino People", Manuel Quezon A. W. Lewin '24, "On the Wire", Robert Service J. C. Shoe '23, "Recognition of Soviet...