Word: commons
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...aesthetic, the intellectual, and the moral wants the state and church can do much in common. But to accomplish this, much of the orthodox and worn-out theory must be cast aside. It is essential that more rational methods of dealing with Sunday be adopted, providing for instance healthy, inspiring drama and opera at established municipal theatres rather than allowing certain managers to produce anything they wish to, as we see in Boston today. The opening of the school-houses on week days and Sundays for the purposes of ethical instruction would make a dynamic force for moral good equal...
MODERN LANGUAGE CONFERENCE. "The New Fragments of Menander." "Dictys Cretensis in Greek." Professor Harris. Common Room, Conant Hall...
...Some Remarks on a Pretended Answer to a Discourse Concerning the Common-Prayer Worship with an Exhortation to the Churches in New England," by Increase Mather...
...McGraw, of "Anywhere." In the prologue Winton boasts of his "Mayflower" descent. By means of a wishing stone, the two men are transported back to 1620 at Plymouth, and meet their own ancestors, face to face. Winston finds that his forefather, of whom he has been boasting, is a common porter and an "undesirable citizen." He is shocked, and attempts to make out his own destiny by disguising his ancestor and introducing him as the governor of a neighboring settlement; and then tries to arrange a match between his ancestor and Miss Priscilla Melons. Pocahontas is brought in--modern history...
...EDUCATION CLUB. "The Appointments Office: Its Work in Placing Teachers." Mr. Edgar H. Wells, Secretary for Appointments. Common Room, Perkins Hall...