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...that men whose minds are open to Science can remain in the old creedal denominations. Celebration. But it was not the motes in their brothers' eyes which inspired the opening sermon delivered by Rev. Paul revere Frothingham Boldly he analyzed: "We want a divine inheritance and a spiritual birthright. To be willing to exchange it for a mess of scientific pottage indicates and Esan-like yearning for the wilderness of doubt. . . . "The Unitarian doctrine has effectively softened and finally transformed the stern theology of New England, as it was meant to do; but let us beware if it softens...
...sold his birthright for a bawdy prize...
Censorship is daughter of Intolerance, and member of a large family of Thou-shalt-nots who thrive and grow fat throughout the land. Who shall deny them their birthright? Shall the Salem witches have died in vain? Shall the ghost of Roger Williams be mute? Shall the eighteenth amendment be robbed at last of its point and meaning? Cotton, Mather rattles his shroud in horror at the mere suspicion that censorship is un-American. The Ziegfeld Follies may be a "National Institution', but one must never forget that censorship was in the field first. Censorship came over in the Mayflower...
...invitation-although the people eligible for invitations would be just the same ones who may now secure their tickets by application. And the sordid, commercial value of tickets would be enhanced as well. The black-list would have to be maintained, for those who might part with their birthright, for the celebrated mess of pottage. The only real difference would be that the Athletic Association would have no gate receipts...
While society after society is springing up to improve and purify everything under the sun and a few things not under the sun, the college is supposed still to be an oasis of liberalism and tolerance. Hence it seems scarcely credible that Mount Holyoke students have sold their birthright to murder the King's English whenever and wherever they please, even to give others a mess of potage. Yet the Transcript vouches for the fact that the Y. W. C. A., perhaps by some form of insidious propaganda, has put in force fines for every lapse from "correct" speech...