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...Ours is a government consciously dedicated to a faith in the inviolable sanctity of the individual human spirit. . . . We have builded a system of individualism. . . . The background of our American system is that we should allow free play of social and economic forces. . . . Social and economic solutions will not avail unless they conform with the traditions of our race, deeply grooved in their sentiments through a century and a half of struggle for ideals of life rooted in religion and fed from purely spiritual springs...
...truth, attained through this spirit of inquiry, he one of the objectives of President Robinson, curbing of ideas not in concordance with his own will be of no avail. Suppressing expression from college editors will lead frequently to a condition in which students heroically fight for a cause, resorting to demonstrations which remind one of communists on May Day. Reed Harris' case is an example of this...
...Bernard Iddings Bell, of Columbia University, virtually charges in the September Atlantic Monthly that student indifference to religion is the fault of university faculties. To illustrate his contention Professor Bell relates how the Student Council at Harvard recommended in 1925 that "a new kind of required course be made available which would include the study, not merely of philosophy, but also of religion." The writer believes that the Harvard Faculty actually defeated the purpose of the recommendation. He says, "The new course has indeed been added to the curriculum, but it is only a half course, and instead of being...
...Pollak elected to be tried by the court without jury, first woman murder defendant to avail herself of that new prerogative in Chicago courts. Excerpts from the newspaper reports...
...been hers. But alas for corsets, in her very first season she blacklisted herself by letting an ineligible bachelor kiss her in a conservatory till all hours. Tongues wagged her market-value down & down. The bloom off, nobody came near but drones. Monica peered, preened and pined to no avail. Her father disappointedly died, her old-maid friends grew more virginal every year, her mother kept a stiff lip stiffer. Things looked pretty dismal for Monica when the biggest drone of all finally settled on her. And the dreadful point of the story is that by that time Monica...