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...editorials of the January number--always a good index of a periodical's life--Pegasus' eye rolls with unwonted vigor. The subjects are sufficiently ephemeral, the style is sufficiently light and sufficiently serious. The feature article, "The Publishing Business as a Career", by Lyman Beecher Stowe '04, carries obvious interest and is appealing in style. "The Valley of Dry Bones", by J. H. Kaye, is a readable essay on the study of history at college, maturely considered, and blessed with sufficient indignation to commend it to those whose literary palate is pleasantly titivated by the sauce of anger. "College...
...Henry Ward Beecher said, forty years ago, 'If to reject God's revelation of the Book is infidelity, what is it to reject God's revelation of Himself in the structure of the whole globe?' With that learned preacher men of science agree when he stated that 'the theory of evolution is the working theory of every department of physical science all over the world...
...commenting upon the new plan Albert Beecher Crawford, director of the University Bureau of Appointments, under whose direction the scholarship awards are made, said: "Scholarship aid and employment secured by the Bureau for students, have both increased approximately 450 percent in the past six years. The per capita benefit during that same period, due to higher costs and the great increase in students, has nevertheless barely held its own. With the existing economic conditions Yale must choose between helping more students to a degree inadequate for the majority, or assisting fewer and more highly selected students each to a greater...
...hundred churches has the borough of Brooklyn, and six hundred preachers in their pulpits rising, every Sunday morning, preach like Henry Ward Beecher, and lead the good burghers in the way of salvation. So this holy borough is known as "The City of Churches." There are 105 books explaining why this is so. There is a list of famous preachers to justify it: Beecher himself. Lyman Abbott, Samuel Hanson Cox. and a score of others such as Farley, Loughlin, Carroll, Storrs, Davis, Littlejohn, Hall, Darlington, Talmage, Cuyler, Kinsolving...
...Professor William S. Meyers of Princeton University listed the nine greatest Americans in order: Washington, Hamilton, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Coolidge, John Marshall, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charlotte Cushman,*Asa Gray.† In addition, he named William Jennings Bryan as "The Apostle of Morons...