Among American and English jurists alike, Burke's principle has been accepted as akin to the organic law and the idea is that a community cannot be indicted." It was a fine speech, for Grady had real genius in him, and this was the first chance he had ever had.

The principal waited until the budding legal light had finished.

Then Mr.Cantwell cleared his throat, to reply crisply: "While I will not venture to gainsay Burke, and he is not here to be cross-examined, I will say that the indictment of the community, in this instance, would mean the expulsion of all the young men in the High School.

To that form of sentence I do not lean.
A light form of punishment would be to prohibit absolutely the final baseball game of the school season.

A sever form would be to withhold the diplomas of the young men of the graduating senior class.