Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University five has been developing rapidly in its last few games, and will be strengthened in tonight's encounter by the return to the regular line-up of J. W. Baldwin '28, star forward, who has been out of the game for two weeks on account of illness. Baldwin saw action in the last few minutes of the M. I. T. game Wednesday evening and displayed his usual brilliant form...
Ambassador Sthamer quietly documented his protest, last week, by producing the official German account of the execution: ". . . Soldiers brought Fraulein Cavell from a neighboring house. Her eyes were bandaged and a black veil was placed over her head. While being led to the wall she tottered and fell in a faint, whereupon an officer, kneeling to aim, shot her. . . . She never faced the firing squad...
Though the German and British accounts are thus irreconcilable, the discrepancy grows less as the British account (and film) proceeds from the point at which Nurse Cavell stands flashing-eyed before the squad...
...Bishop Darlington specifies thirteen 'joys,' which he thinks should, when all is taken into account, make the ministerial calling attractive to a young man. Here are the thirteen, numbered in the order in which the bishop gives them: 1. The ministry is mentally stimulating; the minister keeps up with secular knowledge as well as with religious events. 2. It is physically attractive; pastoral calling means much fresh air, walking and driving a car. 3. It is spiritually helpful to the minister; building up the faith of others, he also builds up his own and so has few spiritual...
Cotton Mather was born in Boston in 1663, the son of Increase Mather, one time president of the University. He took his Bachelor's Degree at the age of 15, and later became a member of the Board of Fellows. A biographical account says, "Mather's day was a continuous church service. He sang psalms, catechized servants, sang more psalms, and entertained his wife (during his life he had three) by reading religious exercises." In spite of his religious bent, Mather was an enthusiastic scientist, and years before Jenner, the discoverer of vaccination, was born, he had advocated inoculation...