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Bound for Babylon...
After the Hasty Pudding Theatricals had produced a particularly "informal" play entitled "Builders of Babylon," in 1909, a group of horrified alumni gathered in consultation. To uplift the theatrical standards, they hired the director of the Princeton Triangle shows to coach the Pudding's next effort. After only a few rehearsals, the new director, bewildered at the haphazardness of the show, resigned himself to fate. "I give up!" he exclaimed. "At Princeton we put these plays on for money, while it seems that Harvard boys only put them...
...will constantly present the 'Christian message' to an entire metropolitan center. This is of course a Babylon, whose 'sins' invite the denunciations of any 'prophet.' But the question is whether the prophet is able to discern the real sins of such a Babylon, or to appreciate the virtues of such a vast conglomerate community in which all peoples and racial stocks live in comparative brotherhood...
...embarrassment of a Graham campaign will be heightened by the fact that the Protestant people are very much in a minority in this Babylon. The Catholics and Jews outnumber the Protestants, and there are, besides, a great number of secularized Jews and gentiles, who have some vague connection with a traditional faith but who cannot simply be put into the category of the 'godless' who must be reclaimed . . . Not only will Graham's 'message' be unable to reach these people at any significant point . . . but the Graham revival will actually accentuate every prejudice which...
...Rivers of Babylon. The development board has already built irrigation dams across the Tigris and Euphrates north of Baghdad, while dams, channels and dikes gouged by German, French, British and American contractors will catch next spring's floodwaters for the first time and lead them into new $30 million lakes at Wadi Tharthar and Habbaniya. Downstream, other contractors are digging drainage ditches and scooping silt from the ancient Babylonian water-distribution canals, now scheduled to be used again as in Hammurabi's time. In upper Iraq, a French firm is building a $28 million concrete dam at Dokan...