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...April 1906 says: "The joyousness of exuberant youth has been happily dramatized by Rida Johnson Young in "Brown of Harvard," and unless outward signs should fail. Henry Woodruffs stellar career has started in with every indication of lasting favor. The play depicting undergraduate life at Cambridge has much to commend it for its fresh and accurate character drawing and the breezy naturalness of the dialogue. Like all pieces of its kind, the moving motive is the struggle for athletic supremacy. . . . "Brown of Harvard" will greatly please the younger set, nor will it to other than give pleasure to those...
...commend to the consideration of all Protestants the question whether they will not more certainly honor Christ as their Savior and King by faithfully adhering to the truth of the Gospel and conforming their lives thereto than by joining in the celebration of a mighty festival marked by 'magnificent processions' and outward 'ceremonies'?" By unanimous vote the Council decided to appeal to all other Protestant bodies to abstain from taking part in the new Feast...
That Harvard required a further limitation of numbers was clear. Given that limitation it was essential to choose the successful candidates upon some competitive principle. The wise solution which has been evolved by the University will commend itself everywhere to undergraduates to graduates, and to general public alike...
Sirs: . . . My reason for writing this letter is to commend you on the publishing of medical subjects that should be of interest to everyone, and to answer a letter written by Mrs. H. S. Lanpher of Providence, R. I., and published in TIME, March 1, objecting to the publishing oi medical topics...
...Anyone who tries to be a Christian and a prohibitionist must lead a double life. I commend that sentence to the gentlemen from Georgia [Mr. Upshaw] and Texas [Mr. Blanton]. Truth crushed to earth will rise again...