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...give anything you can." Organist Firmin Swinnen swung into "Onward Christian Soldiers." By dozens, by hundreds, by thousands, the Episcopalians trooped up to the altar. Singing fervently as they marched, they pulled $10, $5 and $1 bills from their wallets, fluttered them on the altar steps like autumn leaves. When the last of 5,000 people had passed by, Bishop Perry shuffled into the pile of money, lifted both hands for the congregation to kneel with him in a prayer of thanks. Then seven attendants stuffed the bills into bags, carried them out to be counted-$7,916.56. Meanwhile...
...grave ceremony is the opening of the autumn term of France's law courts. Since time out of mind, France's Supreme Court, the Judges of the Cow de cassation, have solemnly paraded in their porkpie hats and fur-trimmed gowns through respectful lines of black-gowned lawyers to the Palais de Justice. The Minister of Justice, formally called Keeper of the Seals, has always been there to make a speech...
...Autumn term began last week. For the first time anyone could remember, perhaps for the first time in history, the Minister of Justice was not there. Gone too was the academic calm. Young lawyers waved their long black sleeves and roared: "Justice! Justice! Justice! Pfui Chéron'. A has les Assassins!" To the base of a memorial to all French judges who have died for their country the young lawyers dragged a huge wreath. It was marked: IN MEMORY OF JUDGE PRINCE?MURDERED...
...hardly were paint & plaster dry on the new mansions when Philanthropist Edward Stephen Harkness came along with some $10,000,000 and an idea that Yale should be broken up into small residential colleges on the English plan. Last autumn his idea became a reality. Each upperclassman was required to eat at least ten meals per week, at $5.50, in his college. For $2.50 more he could have all his meals there. Fraternity treasuries felt the pinch as members dropped away from dining rooms, their chief sources of income. Mortgage payments came hard, and so did the fat sums which...
...likes to wander in the country or sail a small boat, plays the violin with concert skill. Last March he was put on the official Nazi black list, deprived of German citizenship. Though he has Swiss citizen ship, Einstein has lived in the U. S. since last autumn, goes each winter to work at the Flexner-directed Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. There he lives in the seclusion he likes, with his comfortable Hausfrau...